Smokin' Guns's codebase is free and open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

It includes weapons created with historically correct information about damage, rate of fire, reload time, etc.

The development was continued by a new team in 2005 in cooperation and with the blessings of Iron Claw Interactive.

[6] The name of the game was changed in order to avoid legal problems as well as to reflect the work of the new team since it took over development in 2005.

[7] Smokin' Guns and Western Quake 3 were mentioned in German internet gaming magazine Extreme-Players.