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.
William Mason’s Experimental Toggle Link Firearms
The late 19th and early 20th century saw a broad push by arms manufacturers to build self-loading firearms. In this blog post…
Setting the Records Straight: A Glimpse into the Archives
Do you keep a journal? A secret diary? A to-do list on a post-it note? I know the idea of writing with…
Right Turn at Albuquerque
Hello everyone! My name is Kyle Hestand and I am one of two summer interns at the Cody Firearms Museum (CFM). I…
An Intern’s Tale
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…
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…
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…