Chris Cheng is the History Channel’s Top Shot Season 4 Champion—he beat 17 professional marksmen and won a $100,000 cash prize, the title of “Top Shot,” and a pro marksman contract […]
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.
Museum Minute: A Bank Robbery & a Thompson Submachine Gun
The Thompson Submachine Gun was invented in the early 1900s and was originally meant for the battle field. But it became notorious as the gangster gun because it has been […]
Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum announces Grand Opening
The Cody Firearms Museum (CFM) at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West unveils its major—and much-anticipated—makeover on July 6, 2019. Home to one of the largest collections of firearms […]
Museum Minute: An American Rifle
One of the most “American” firearms is the American Rifle. However, most people generally refer to it as the Penn Rifle or the Kentucky Rifle. That’s according to Danny Michael, […]
Museum Minute: Japanese Attempted to Reengineer American Semi-automatic During World War II
During World War II, the U.S. Army was one of the first armies to adopt a semi-automatic rifle as its standard infantry arm. This was a big deal because during […]
Museum Minute: The Watermelon Patch Gun
The Cody Firearms Museum is home to more than 7,000 firearms but there’s one that is particularly popular with the public. That gun is a percussion trap gun. Ashley Hlebinsky, […]
