BOOM Library has announced the release of a professional firearms sound effects library built around a single premise: every weapon included is carried by police, issued to armies, or used by criminals. Rather than sorting content purely by caliber, the Tactical Guns library ties each recording to who actually carries the weapon, for use across crime drama, military film and television, and tactical game audio.
Every weapon’s service record was checked against public sources during research. Where that record couldn’t be verified, the library describes the weapon by sound and specification only, with no unsupported claim attached. The result is a 25-weapon collection spanning pistols, a revolver, assault rifles, sniper and designated-marksman rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, and shotguns, each recorded at multiple distances, from point-blank out to 100 meters, across up to 28 mic channels.
“With our previous firearm libraries we picked weapons used by the military in some of the world’s most major conflicts,” said Axel Rohrbach, founder and creative director at BOOM Library. “But actually this does not represent firearms usage in media very well. Much more interesting and more common in media is the firearms use of law enforcement, squad teams, special forces and in criminal activities. That is why we tried to find the biggest common ground for the selection of weapons for this library.”
Tactical Guns ships in three editions:
- Construction Kit ($209 USD/€179 EUR) with over 9,000 individual shot recordings for all 25 weapons at multiple distances, captured across up to 28 mic channels delivered across eight named perspectives per shot. It also includes matched handling recordings (grab, magazine in/out, mode and safety, reload) for nearly every weapon. Two substitutions are disclosed rather than left unstated: the Kel-Tec KSG uses SPAS-15 handling, and the Tavor TAR-21 uses AKS-74U handling.
- Designed ($139 USD/€119 EUR) layer with 850+ pre-assembled Close, Distant, Heavy, and Mechanical mixes per weapon category, built from the same Construction Kit material across single shots, bursts, and full auto.
- Bundle including both editions ($269 USD/€229 EUR).
Tactical Guns is available now with a 20% discount on all three editions until October 1st, 2026.
More information: BOOM Library / Tactical Guns
