diff --git a/gendb.sh b/gendb.sh
index b40d058..21bcde4 100755
--- a/gendb.sh
+++ b/gendb.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ sqlite3 pf2.db < schema/senses.sql
 sqlite3 pf2.db < schema/ancestries.sql
 sqlite3 pf2.db < schema/armor.sql
 sqlite3 pf2.db < schema/gear.sql
+sqlite3 pf2.db < schema/weapons.sql
 echo 'loading data'
 sqlite3 pf2.db < data/sources.sql
 sqlite3 pf2.db < data/damagetypes.sql
@@ -34,10 +35,15 @@ sqlite3 pf2.db < data/ancestries.sql
 sqlite3 pf2.db < data/armor.sql
 sqlite3 pf2.db < data/gear.sql
 sqlite3 pf2.db < data/heritages.sql
+sqlite3 pf2.db < data/weapons.sql
 # Comment out the following three lines if you don't want to generate the spell data.
 cd data/third_party_json
 python3 spells.py
 cd ../..
+# Comment out the following when we don't want to generate weapons
+cd src/weapons
+python3 weapons.py
+cd ../..
 
 # TODO Eventually we will stop relying on the spells.py script and I will have
 # the actual .sql files for the spell data; I am waiting to see if the
diff --git a/src/weapons/weapons.py b/src/weapons/weapons.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e282064
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/weapons/weapons.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+import csv
+import sqlite3
+
+def main():
+    # load json into python
+    print("loading melee.csv")
+    ## read file into memory
+    rows = []
+    with open('melee.csv') as f:
+        reader = csv.DictReader(f)
+        print(reader)
+        for row in reader:
+            rows.append(row)
+
+
+    ## Get database connection
+    conn = sqlite3.connect('../../pf2.db') 
+    ## Set pragmas to make it go FAST
+    pragma1 = "PRAGMA synchronous=OFF;"
+    pragma2 = "PRAGMA count_changes=OFF;"
+    pragma3 = "PRAGMA journal_mode=MEMORY;"
+    pragma4 = "PRAGMA temp_store=MEMORY;"
+    pragma5 = "PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON;"
+    conn.execute(pragma1)
+    conn.execute(pragma2)
+    conn.execute(pragma3)
+    conn.execute(pragma4)
+    conn.execute(pragma5)
+
+    # load in ids for traits from traits table so we only call this once
+    # instead of every spell
+    stmt = "SELECT trait_id, short_name FROM traits"
+    c = conn.cursor()
+    c.execute(stmt)
+    traits = c.fetchall()
+    # print("Printing traits")
+    # print(traits)
+
+    for row in rows:
+        insert_melee_weapon(row, conn, traits)
+
+def insert_melee_weapon(row, conn, traits):
+    print("Inserting: {}".format(row['name']))
+    # insert everything that's not a lookup
+    stmt =  """
+    INSERT INTO weapons (
+        weapons_id,
+        sources_id,
+        sources_pages,
+        price_gp,
+        dice_size,
+        bulk,
+        hands,
+        name,
+        descr)
+    VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?);
+    """
+    r = row
+    inp = (r['weapon_m_id'],r['sources_id'],r['sources_pg'],r['price_gp'],
+           r['dice_size'],r['bulk'],r['hands'],r['name'],r['description'])
+
+    try:
+        conn.execute(stmt, inp)
+    except:
+        print("Error inserting basic row information")
+    else:
+        conn.commit()
+        # print("Successfully inserted row")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()