Hey, this is going to become a list of firearms related museums across the world it'll will be linked in the side bar.

If there's any museums you know comment them and I'll add them below. This is and will likely always be an incomplete list.

If you don't know any museums but you don't see your country represented let me know and we'll see if we can't find one to add.

Africa

Egypt 🇪🇬

• National Military Museum, Cairo

Ethiopia 🇪🇹

• National Museum, Addis Ababa

Kenya 🇰🇪

• National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi

South Africa 🇿🇦

• National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg

Tanzania 🇹🇿

• National Museum, Dar es Salaam

Asia

China 🇨🇳

• Military History Museum, Beijing

Japan 🇯🇵

• Edo Firearms Museum, Tokyo
• Pistol Museum, Tanegashima

Russia 🇷🇺

• Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow
• Tula State Museum of Arms, Tula

Singapore 🇸🇬

• Army Museum, Singapore

South Korea 🇰🇷

• Army Museum, Seoul

Vietnam 🇻🇳

• Military and War Museum, Ho Chi Minh

Europe

Austria 🇦🇹

• Neue Burg, Vienna

Belgium 🇧🇪

• Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels

France 🇫🇷

• *Mémorial de Caen, Normandy"
• Musée de l’Armée, Paris

Germany 🇩🇪

• Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
• Waffenmuseum, Suhl

Italy 🇮🇹

• Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, TN

Malta 🇲🇹

• Malta Time-Gun Museum, Valletta

Netherlands 🇳🇱

• Verzetsmuseum, Amsterdam

Poland 🇵🇱

• Museum of the Second World War, Gdańsk
• Warsaw Uprising Museum, Warszawa

Romania 🇷🇴

• Army Museum, Brașov

Spain 🇪🇸

• Casa de la Guerra, Barcelona

Sweden 🇸🇪

• Armémuseum, Stolkholm
• Eskilstuna Stadsmuseum, Eskilstuna

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Baturyn Historic and Cultural Reserve - Museum of Hetmancy, Chernihiv
• Lviv Arsenal, Lviv
• National Museum-Preserve of Ukrainian Military Achievements, Kyiv

UK 🇬🇧

• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• Imperial War Museum, London
• National Army Museum, London
• Royal Armories, Leeds + Portsmouth

North America

Canada 🇨🇦

• Historical Arms Museum, ON
• Evergreen Firearms Museum, MB

Mexico 🇲🇽

• Museo del Ejército y Fuerza Aérea Mexicanos, Pueblo

• Museo de la Revolución, Mexico City

US 🇺🇲

• Cody Firearms, WY
• JM Davis Arms and Historical Museum, OK
• John M. Browning Firearms Museum, UT
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
• Museum of Connecticut History (Colt Collection), CT
• NRA Museums, MO + VA + NM
• Springfield National Armory, MA
• Shooter's Outpost, NH
• Smithsonian, DC

South America

Argentina 🇦🇷

• National Arms Museum, Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Chile 🇨🇱

• Museo Histórico y Militar, Santiago

Paraguay

• Museo Militar, Asunción

Peru 🇵🇪

• Museo del Ejército, Lima

Uruguay 🇺🇾

• Museo Nacional de Armas, Montevideo

Oceania

Australia 🇦🇺

• Lithgow Small Arms Factory, NSW

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22126382

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>The rifle resembled a typical spring-air rifle, but the 2000° hot, high-pressure air served not only to propel the projectile but also to ignite the propellant on the back of the V/L cartridge. The rifle uses a small, unique, and well designed part called an Obturator (obturator/ignitor) to compress the air as it is pushed through a tiny hole. This air is heated as it is pushed through the small hole enough to ignite the powder of the caseless round.

>The V/L guns and ammunition were discontinued in 1969 after the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ruled that they constituted a firearm, and Daisy, which was not licensed to manufacture firearms, decided to discontinue manufacture rather than become a firearms manufacturer. About 23,000 of the rifles were made before production ceased.

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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ten_Shot_Harmonica_Pistol_9mm_(2).jpg > >

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> https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21963

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> https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/commanding-general-of-u-s-army-europe-dwight-d-eisenhower-news-photo/98499198

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https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/the-pedersen-device-a-secret-weapon-of-wwi/

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> https://en.topwar.ru/163110-dospehi-i-oruzhie-oruzhejnoj-palaty-dvorca-dozhej.html

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20835459

> ! > ! > ! > > https://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/40001599 > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miquelet_lock

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20803443

> https://en.topwar.ru/163110-dospehi-i-oruzhie-oruzhejnoj-palaty-dvorca-dozhej.html

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Experimental 3-pounder cannon of the Tula plant, 1722, Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, St. Petersburg.

The page I pulled this from does not have a ton of detailed technical information, and information is, at a search glance, not coming up with much more, but here are some selections from the page:

>The baptism of fire "secret" howitzers (as they began to be called) received in the battles of the Seven Years War, in battles with the army of Frederick II. In the battle of Gross-Jägersdorf, it is the secret howitzers that play the main role in the victory.

>However, the "secret" howitzers did not last long in service with the field artillery of the Russian army. Still, the survivability of the barrel was lower than that of conventional guns, and firing cannonballs from them was almost impossible.

Source.

Historical firearms article on the gun.

Highlights:

>The first untethered balloon flight took place on the 21st November 1783, with the first military use occurring during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Franco-Prussian War the French again used observation balloons and when Prussian troops besieged Paris they became a vital lifeline out of the encircled city.

>[In response to balloons] Alfred Krupp developed a breech-loading 37mm canon mounted on a pedestal fixed to the bed of a carriage. Some sources describe the gun as a Ballonabwehrkanone or balloon defence gun. The canon had a stock and a folding sight fixed to the receiver. The canon could be rapidly deployed to open fire on the balloons as they crossed Prussian lines. Five French balloons were captured by the Prussians when they were forced to land, a further three were declared missing.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19780540

> https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/62/1323/rare-and-unique-30shot-revolver

>... Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum on August 25 after three people wearing balaclavas allegedly stole 27 handguns worth an estimated $200,000.

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> https://www.christies.com/lot/a-fine-german-slurbow-dated-1657-5509843/ > > https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5509842

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https://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-enouy-revolver.html

This 5 shot 7.62 caliber double action revolver is actually suppressed by its unique cartridge design.

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When fired expanding gases from the gunpowder pushed a plug forward which inturn pushed the liquid solution (60% alcohol 40% glycerol). This incompressible solution pushed on the bullet to launch it out of the revolver's barrel. The gases were contained in the cartridge preventing the typical sound report of a gunshot. And the liquid would follow the subsonic bullet out of the barrel as well.

https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Gurevich_silent_revolver

This Chinese production C96 Broomhandle pistol is found in the collection of the UK's Royal Armouries. Curator Jonathan Ferguson showed it off recently in this video briefly.

It notably the word pistol engraved on the side where it should say Mauser. Just in case you couldn't tell I suppose.

https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2024/benelli-introduce-new-rifle-as-solution-against-uav-during-battle

While it seems to lack any really novel new features it definitely is interesting seeing major manufacturers pivoting with FPV drones taking over the modern battlefield.

>The first repeating rifle used in combat by a military force was a flintlock system developed by the Kalthoff brothers. It was adopted in the 1640s by the Danish Royal Guard, who purchased a bit more than 100 of the guns, and used them successfully in the Siege of Copenhagen in 1659. The Kalthoff is a .54 caliber flintlock rifle with a magazine of 30 balls under the barrel and a powder storage compartment in the buttstock. A lever under the action is rotated forward 180 degrees and then back to completely reload the rifle – this action loads a ball into the chamber, seats it fully in place, loads powder behind it, primes the pan, cocks the hammer, and closes the frizzen. This was an amazing amount of firepower in the mid-1600s, and the mechanism in the gun is brilliant.

>The Kalthoff brothers (Peter, Mathias, Caspar, Henrik, and William) spread out across Europe working for many royal courts although it was in Denmark where their gun saw the most substantial military use. The system would lead to other repeating flintlock designs like the Lorenzoni, but these did not really meet the quality of the original Kalthoffs (in my opinion). However, the system was very expensive to make and rather fragile to use. By 1696 the Danes had taken them out of service in favor of simpler and more durable designs.

https://youtu.be/ghKrbNpqQoY

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