In honor of Glock’s 30th anniversary in America in 2016, the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West mounted the exhibit Glock Makes History: the Birth […]
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.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West transports popular firearms to annual SHOT Show
Treasures from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum and Buffalo Bill Museum headed to the annual SHOT Show (“Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade”) in Las Vegas, […]
Buffalo Bill Center of the West reopens popular Smithsonian firearms exhibit
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, reopened its popular Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian exhibition in time for the Center’s free […]
Go West, Young Man: An Intern Following His Dream
[I am] Going back west of the Mississippi and spending my pile out there in the country which an American statesman once said was fit only for the coyote and […]
Got Records? A Walk through Record Retrieval at the Cody Firearms Museum
Firearms are great artifacts and collectors items due to their recorded history in factory records and archives. Here is a take on my records experience when I had an interesting […]
Farewell to the West
After ten weeks, I bid my farewell to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and the Cody Firearms Records Office. When I started this internship, I was unsure how […]
