The Free Firearm Sound Library — Prepared SFX Library
Creators: Ben Jaszczak, Brian Nelson, Kevin Heras, Matthew Nanney
License: Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0)
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Insecticide edits: selected individual recorded gun reports; trimmed leading
silence and long tails; converted to mono 32 kHz PCM; adjusted low-frequency
body and peaks; added short edge fades. Full per-file provenance, archive and
source SHA-256 hashes are in ../SOURCES.json. The selected recordings are
AK-47 (rifle), 1911 (sidearm), Mossberg (shotgun), and Carl Gustav M45
(needle weapon report).
