You know that feeling you get when you’re inching your way to the top of a roller-coaster? The one where excitement and fear are warring in your chest and you’re trying […]
Cody Firearms Museum Blog: Unloading the Myth
The Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West houses over 7,000 historically significant firearms with more than 15,000 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.
Cody Firearms Museum’s “Arsenals of History” firearms symposium
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum brought international firearms experts and museum professionals to Cody, Wyoming, for a firearms symposium in July 2017, Arsenals of History: […]
Guns of Lewis and Clark
When the Corps of Discovery made its epic journey across the North American continent and back their firearms were an essential part of the trip. And while historians generally know […]
T.C. Johnson’s Bolt Action Experiments
One of the most widely produced rifles in America during World War One was the P14 Enfield and the M1917. Designers based these guns on the same prewar British design […]
Winchester Goes to War
This year, 2017, is the centennial of the United States joining World War One. But while the U.S. government did not join the war until April 1917, companies like Winchester […]
The Guns of Star Wars
In a galaxy long long ago….the characters used 20th century weapons. Okay, So we won’t be writing Star Wars intro scrolls anytime soon, but did you know that many of […]
