Category Archives: Museum

45th Infantry Division Museum

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700 guns on display

Opened in 1968

Oklahoma City, OK

  • Created in 1963
  • Opened in 1968
  • In a 1938 Armory building started out as a state officers’ club
  • Largest state military museum in the country
  • 12-acre outdoor park
  • 667-piece Jordan B. Reaves gun collection
  • Open every day
  • FREE (but leave a donation)

45th Infantry Division Museum
2145 NE 36th St
Oklahoma City, OK 73111

45thdivisionmuseum.com

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Texas Rangers Hall of Fame

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100s of Guns

Opened in 1968

Waco, Texas

  • Hundreds of Guns in multiple galleries
  • A very good firearm museum
  • Commemorates 30 Texas Rangers in Hall of Fame
  • Open almost every day
  • Adults $8.00 / Children $4.00

Texas Rangers Hall of Fame
100 Texas Ranger Trail
Waco, TX 76706
 (254) 750-8631

https://www.texasranger.org

GUNS OF FORT FISHER Booklet

Fort Fisher Museum and Park, Interstate Highway 35 and Lake Brazos, Waco, Texas

8.5″ x 11″, 20 page staple bound booklet, Published by Parks and Recreation Department, City of Waco, Texas, First Edition, copyright 1973

From his youth, Gaines de Graffenried demonstrated an interest in the study and collecting of antique and historic guns and weapons. He devoted the major portion of his life to this pursuit and eventually assembled one of the most extensive and valuable collections in the nation, eventually displaying his collection at the Fort Fisher Museum in Waco. Color photographs of 40 Colt firearms owned by former Texas Rangers. Includes material on Jack Hays, Clint Peoples, Frank Hamer, Ben McCulloch, G. W. Burks, Bill McDonald, and others.

Colonial Williamsburg – Gunsmith Shop

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Dozens of firearms (most on display)

Created in 1963

Williamsburg, Virginia

Gunsmiths make rifles, pistols, and fowling pieces using the tools and techniques of their 18th-century

https://colonialwilliamsburg.org/

“Four hundred hours” is the generic answer that the Colonial Williamsburg gunsmiths give when the inevitable question, “How long does it take to build a rifle?” 

  • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • a “living museum” of pre-Revolutionary America
  •  re-create the Colonial-era American rifles using the materials, tools and techniques of the Colonial time period
  • 1967-2008 Gunsmith Shop was located on Francis Street near the Capitol
  • 1960  designated a National Historic Landmark District
  • 1966 Wooden Sign Created
  • 2008 Gunsmith Shop moved to James Geddy Sr. & son’s William and David carried on the trade in the mid-18th century
  • musket-firing program is open to participants aged 14 and older 

https://colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/gunsmith-shop/

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2018/12/17/making-the-american-rifle-at-colonial-williamsburg/

http://www.flintriflesmith.com/cwf_gunshop.htm

Magazine

  • 1715 Built as storage for the arms and ammunition from London

https://colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/magazine/

Museum – Colonial Williamsburg

Jonathan Browning Home & Gun Shop

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Just a few Guns

1960

Nauvoo, Illinois

  • 1843 Jonathan Browning & family moved to Nauvoo
  • 1836 Mormon militias disarmed as a negotiated truce
  • 1838 Battle of Crooked River & Mormans slaughtered
  • 1845 J.B moved to Iowa & 1852 Moved to Utah
  • His Illinois Gunshop
  • Re-Opened in 1960
  • Just a few Models of Brownings firearms
  • It’s a drive, but you stand on
  • the grounds of his actual factory !!
  • FREE – Open almost every day

Visited the Jonathan Browning gunsmith shop in Nauvoo, Illinois
They have recreated his original Workshop on the location that it’s stood before he moved to Utah

It’s a remote location but awesome experience to stand on the same location where John Browning’s father started building guns

There’s a tour with knowledgeable guides who tell you about his life and story

There’s no cost to visit this Museum

#JonathanBrowning
#BrowningsGunShop
#GunShowLoopholeTour

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn7JyJ5nS7D/

Jonathan Browning Home & Gunshop
Rock Island Arsenal
Building 60
Rock Island, IL 61201

Museum of Connecticut History – Colt Collection

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1,500 firearms (200 on display)

Created in 1957

Hartford, CT

Also

  • Guns produced by the twenty-six different gun makers who did business in Connecticut

Museum of Connecticut History
Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
860-757-6535

Complements the E.H.J. Colt Firearms Collection in the Wadsworth Atheneum

https://bennicholson.com/guns/Museum-of-Connecticut-History-Colt-Collection.html

http://museumofcthistory.org/colt-collection/

Museum of the Fur Trade

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800 guns on display

1956

Chadron, Nebraska

  • 1837 James Bordeaux’s trading post established
  •  founded by Charles E. Hanson, Jr.
  • 1953 acquired site property
  • 1956 trading post was reconstructed on its original foundation stones
  • 1956 opened to the public
  • Included in the National Register of Historic Places
  • most complete collection of these rare firearms in existence
  • Indian trade guns manufactured between 1640 and 1911 in England, Belgium and the United States