The Galleries
- Robert E. Petersen Collection
- Ancient Firearms
- The Road to American Liberty
- Seeds of Greatness
- The Prospering New Republic
- A Nation Asunder
- The American West
- Innovation, Oddities and Competition
- Theodore Roosevelt, Elegant Arms
- World War I and Firearms Innovation
- WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Beyond
- For the Fun of It
- Firearms Traditions for Today
- William B. Ruger Special Exhibits
- Freedom's Doorway
For the Fun of It
This one's a surefire crowd-pleaser. Step up close and a fully restored 1903 Coney Island shooting gallery springs to life with music, bells, bull's-eye targets, still targets, knock-downs, silhouettes and chain-driven moving wheels. Across from the shooting gallery is a boy's bedroom circa 1952. It comes complete with Hopalong Cassidy linoleum, Western paint-by-numbers wall hangings and a Davy Crockett coonskin cap. You'll also find shotgun fun here like the first Daisy air rifle and half-dollar coins with a hole in the center courtesy of "the fastest gun in the world"-exhibition shooter Ed McGivern.
Significant Firearms in Gallery 12:
- Cap Pistols
- Quackenbush Air Rifle Converts to a .22 rimfire
- Single-Shot, Pump-Action & Bolt-Action Rifles & Shotguns
- Ed McGivern Handguns Fourteen guns represent the largest public display of this noted Montana marksman's firearms
Watch For the Fun of It