Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, a U.S. Army officer, developed the light machine gun named after him in the years prior to World War I. Lewis attempted to get his design for a machine gun adopted by the U.S. Army, but failed. General William Crozier, then Chief of Ordnance, usually receives most of the blame for the […]
*This blog focuses on some but not all of the differentiations between modern sporting rifles and assault rifles.* You’ve heard “assault weapon” in the news. It’s a scary way to refer to the black gun. The word “assault” often causes a misunderstanding about what is semi-automatic and what is fully automatic. A semi-automatic firearm releases only one […]
One big issue all museums face is the impending doom of running out of display space! We face the same fate at the Cody Firearms Museum. While we currently have more than 50 percent of the collections on display, our staff is constantly trying to figure out better ways to display more guns. One solution […]