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
The Alamo (1960)
The Alamo (1960)
Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie
Nock Volley Gun - .52 caliber
Slightly more than six hundred of these original flintlock Nock
volley guns were sold to the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
Henry Nock's seven-barreled smoothbore was specifically intended to
be fired from the rigging down onto the deck against
boarders. This formidable gun was wielded by Richard Widmark
as frontiersman Jim Bowie several times in repelling Mexican
attackers in this 1960 film version of The
Alamo. Designed to fire all seven barrels
simultaneously, concussion and recoil were devastating.
Loaned by the Estate of Robert E. Petersen