The Weapon Shops of Isher is a science fiction novel by American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in 1951.

The Isher/Weapon Shops novels are rare examples of Golden Age science fiction that explicitly discuss the right to keep and bear arms, specifically guns.

The mission of the Weapon Shops, therefore, is primarily to provide a mechanism to prevent an unjust government from oppressing the people too much.

It was also published as a paperback by Ace Books and in 1969 by New English Library in the U.K. Boucher and McComas praised Weapon Shops as "a fine excitingly involved melodrama.".

"[2] New York Times reviewer Basil Davenport found the opening segment "begins well enough," but as the novel progresses, the reader's attention becomes "badly divided.