7,000 guns (150 on display)
1876 Created
Smithsonian, Washington, DC
- 1876 National Museum of American History established the National Firearms Collection in Washington, DC
- America’s historic firearms:
patent models, military projects, key examples of production arms, guns of historic figures, exhibition guns and presentation guns - 1988 dismantled and put in storage
- stored in the ‘Gun Room’ within the National Museum of American History
- only accessible to scholars and dignitaries
- 1% (64 guns) of the collection is on loan to the Cody Firearms Museum (But you can not film it)
https://bennicholson.com/guns/National-Firearms-Collection-of-the-Smithsonian.html
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