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
True Grit (1969) Colt
This firearm is on exhibit at the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum in Springfield, MO.
True Grit (1969)
John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn
Italian Walker Colt - .44 caliber
This massive revolver was featured prominently in more than one
scene in Wayne's only Oscar-winning performance, True
Grit. It appeared again in Clint Eastwood's post-Civil War
epic The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976).
Collection of The National Firearms Museum