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.
Kirsten Joy Weiss
Starting later than the norm for most competition shooters, Kirsten Joy Weiss began her Olympic-style rifle career in the latter part of…
Chris Cheng
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…