Trade Register · Arms and armor

Gunmaking, historic

Scoped to historic and reproduction arms. The Register takes no position on, and does not reach, contemporary firearms manufacture.

Also called

flintlock makinggunsmith, historiclongrifle makingmuzzleloader building

A record names this trade by its identifier, never by any of these strings. The strings are here so that a reader searching under one of them arrives at the right term.

The term

Identifier

TR-00133 — permanent, never reassigned

Group

Arms and armor

Federal occupation code

None. No occupation code; performed within the gunsmith apprenticeable occupation without separate reporting

Assessment

Endangered

Enrollable

Yes

First published

2026-09-22

Note

Scoped to historic and reproduction arms. The Register takes no position on, and does not reach, contemporary firearms manufacture.

Scope

A trade with the same transmission structure as the core whose output is neither a building nor an industrial good. Carries the same identifiers, the same Record and the same conformance requirements as any other term.

Sources

heritage-crafts-2025, rapids

What the register holds

No records under this term yet

The register holds nothing for Gunmaking, historic today. It holds nothing for any trade today — the Standard is at draft and the conformance trial has not run. When records exist they appear here, each at a permanent address, free to read and free to copy.

Two things can be done now. A practitioner of this trade, or the successor of one, can apply to the first twelve. Anyone who has seen finished work in this trade hold up or fail can file a Condition Observation at no charge, and an Observation is never deleted once published.

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