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.
A Caliber Too Far: The Lee Navy
These days small bore high velocity cartridges abound, and new ones keep pushing the limits of cartridge performance. The 1890s weren’t that…
A Breechloader, the Civil War, and A Lawsuit: The Morse Carbine
Prior to the Civil War, the US Army sought ways to alter its existing muzzle loading arms into breech loaders. The Army had…
The Lewis Gun Goes to Europe
Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, a U.S. Army officer, developed the light machine gun named after him in the years prior to World…
The Rifles of the Eight Nation Alliance
The Eight Nation Alliance consisted of the United States, British Empire, Germany, France, Austro-Hungary, Italy, Russia, and Japan. These rivals temporarily put aside…
Introduction
Hello! My name is Danny Michael and I am the new Assistant Curator of the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill…
Cody Firearms Museum adds “Operation Cowboy” exhibit
It’s a story right out of the Old West: Stolen horses. Risk-taking. Retrieve horses. Return horses. Except, this story happened in the…