Historic Firearms on Display at Finney Co. Museum
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Garden City, KS(westernkansasnews.com) The “Aiming True” exhibit is now on display at the Finney County Museum featuring muskets rifles and shotguns from the 1820s to 1940s.
The firearms include a Winchester 1873 lever action rifle, known as “the gun that won the West,” a Sharps Army carbine of Civil War vintage and a pair of U.S. military-issue Wickham muskets dating to the 1820s. The guns, all from the museum’s artifact collection, also range from a Berthier carbine of the type used by French troops during World War I to a World War II Murata rifle carried by the Japanese Imperial Army.
In addition, the exhibit features a trio of antique shotguns, a battlefield machine gun built for German forces in World War I and additional pieces. There are also artifacts related to the weapons, as well as list of the most significant firearms of the Old West.
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