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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.

April 16, 2020

A coloring book from the Cody Firearms Museum

Looking for a fun and relaxing activity to pass the time at home? Our Cody Firearms Museum has created a coloring book!…

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April 13, 2020

Museum Minute: Curators Don’t Always Know Everything

Museum curators are expected to have an in-depth knowledge of everything in the collections.  “We try to put on a very good…

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March 19, 2020

Museum Minute: The Palm Protector Pistol

In the early 1900s, a new concealable pistol was created. The Palm Protector Pistol was a double action revolver, but Danny Michael,…

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January 31, 2020

Museum Minute: The .50 Caliber Bolt Action

During World War I, while John Browning was working on a heavy machine gun that would use a .50 caliber cartridge, Cody…

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MM: 1887 Frontier Revolver, Tom Tobin. 2003.10.1 (detail)
November 21, 2019

Museum Minute: A Bounty Hunter

Tom Tobin was a mountain man and bounty hunter in the late 1800s in Southern Colorado. He is most known for killing…

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Winchester Model 21 Shotgun, 1973. Serial number 26352. Owned by James Doolittle. Gift of General James H. Doolittle. 1979.2.1
October 25, 2019

Museum Minute: General James Doolittle

James Doolittle was a general during World War II. He became famous for his raid on Tokyo in 1942 just after Pearl…

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