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The AGI tapes are at least a good start, but they are expensive.
Brownell's sell them all and offer FFL Dealer and C&R License pricing.
Another way to start is to buy a Jerry Kuhnhausen Shop Manual on a gun you own and learn how the factories do gunsmithing by using the manual to disassemble and study your gun.
These don't cover the absolute basics, but are still an excellent way to see how things are done, and all skills transfer over to other guns.
Buy the shop manuals on Brownell's or Midway.
Brownell's carry some good basics books:
"Gunsmithing Made Easy" by Towsley, "Gunsmithing" by the famed Roy Dunlap, and "Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair" by Matunas are all good starters.
The J. Martin "Firearms Disassembly Guides" are some of the best info on how to disassemble and reassemble guns, and are better then the Gun Digest Disassembly books, although the Gun Digest books will at least show A WAY of disassembling guns, just not necessarily the proper gunsmith way.
The NRA "Firearms Disassembly and Reassembly" guides Volume 4 and 5 are excellent.
"The Gun Digest Book of Exploded Firearms Drawings" shows schematics of many guns and this helps in figuring out how they work and come apart.
Last, both Brownell's and Midway have videos posted on their web sites showing basic gunsmithing jobs like installing an extractor in a 1911 pistol and mounting a scope on a rifle.
Stay AWAY from videos on Youtube and most other such sites.
The people who post that stuff often have no idea what they're doing and often show methods that will just ruin a gun.
Point is, you have no way of knowing if they know what they're doing or are some joker with a hammer and a wrench.
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