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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.

Colt Model 1877 Thunderer double-action revolver, embellished by Robert Wielgus, 2004–2006. Gift of Raymond J. Wielgus. 2010.17.36.1
August 13, 2013

Ancient engraving style adorns art guns in Wielgus Collection exhibition

Raymond Wielgus (1920 – 2010), sculptor and collector of ethnographic art, retired in 1970, with his wife and coworker, Laura. They moved from…

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