Abstract: A carbon fiber composite reinforced gun barrel and a method for making the same. The composite barrel that includes an interference fit gas block sleeve and machined steel ferrule that seals the gas port provided through the laminate composite reducing the risk of pressure leakage and delamination. The disclosed method of winding a carbon fiber resin composite on a structure, such as a rifle barrel, produces, for a given layer, constant wind angles that are engineered for longitudinal stiffness throughout the length of a given layer. The engineered wind angles throughout the length of each layer of fiber minimizing sacrificial material for the benefit of optimal fiber orientations and wound fiber collation. Whereas the base layers are defined by hoop winding, the orientation angles of successive strata becomes progressively lower and lower until the outermost strata achieve the target orientation angle of approximately 3 to 5 degrees.