Cody Firearms Museum
The Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West houses over 7,000 historically significant firearms with more than 30,000 firearms-related artifacts. We seek to provide every visitor – from gun aficionados, to firearms novices, to those without previous firearms experience – with a unique educational opportunity. This museum is more than just guns; firearms help inform the story of the West, the story of gun cultures, and the story of people.
Early Ammunition Development
Ammunition is the most important element required for advances in firearms development. Many of the leaps in firearms development were attempted and…
How to Arm a Space Cowboy, Firefly Edition
When it came to arming the characters of the Firefly series and its movie Serenity, one gun would not do. Heck, even…
Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum hosts “Arsenals of History” symposium
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum brought international firearms experts and museum professionals to Cody, Wyoming, for a…
Burglars, Space Cowboys, and a Question about Firearms
Our office door is always open for visitors to come in, introduce themselves, and ask us questions. It just so happens that…
A Legend Remade: Ithaca Tries its Hand at the Hawken
Legends contain lessons, and humans are nostalgic beings. We like to look back at the past and pat ourselves on the backs…
Deep Diving into the Archives for Research
My research on William Mason’s toggle link prototypes into expanded into a small research project working with our archived material. That first…