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	Gallery I: Museum Benefactors Gallery and Orientation Theater explores the roots of the NRA. See several historical firearms, including the carbine invented by NRA's first president, and target and service arms presented to NRA by the governments of the United States and other nations.
	Gallery II: Old Guns in a New World describes the transition between Old World firearms and firearms in the new colonies. The discovery of gunpowder and examples of early firearms are also portrayed.
	Gallery III: The William L. and Collette N. Roberts Gallery, The Road to American Liberty shows the firearms that were essential to the survival of the early colonists. Displays include a painting of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, and reproductions of a pair of pistols owned by George Washington.
	Gallery IV: Seeds of Greatness details the events that led to ratification of the Second Amendment. Firearms on display include early muskets and pistols from the National Armories at Springfield, Massachusetts and Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
	Gallery V: The Prospering New Republic describes a large part of American history, covering such events as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the War with Mexico, and the California Gold Rush. Firearms include an air rifle similar to that used on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Colt revolvers of the type popular with the "49ers," and an early Remington rifle.
	Gallery VI: A Nation Asunder traces the arms race sparked by the War Between the States. Displays include a Sharps carbine used by both Union and Confederate cavalrymen, a Colt revolver carried by one of Mosby's Rangers, and a "John Brown" Sharps, a reminder of the era of "Bleeding Kansas."
	Gallery VII: The American West highlights the legends of the Old West, including "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Annie Oakley. Amidst the dozens of firearms displayed are rifles and revolvers of the Buffalo Soldiers, frontier firearms by Colt, Smith & Wesson, Marlin, and Winchester, and two guns that belonged to Annie Oakley herself.
	Gallery VIII: The New Prosperity explores the phenomenal growth in the arms industry following the Civil War. See epochal target rifles by Ballard, Maynard, Remington, and Sharps, plus Model 1903 and M1 rifles assembled especially for use in the National Matches.
	Gallery IX: The Beretta Gallery, An Age of Elegance details Theodore Roosevelt, his connection to the NRA, and his part in the emergence of the United States as a world power. Guns on display include several owned by Roosevelt; plus a Colt Single Action Army revolver carried by one of Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
	Gallery X: America Ascending explores America's entry into the "World at War: 1914-1918." Among the firearms displayed are an experimental British Farquhar-Hill semi-automatic rifle and a German anti-tank rifle. The gallery also highlights the work of American designers John Browning, John Thompson, John Garand, and J.D. Pedersen.
	Gallery XI: Ever Vigilant examines World War II, the Korean War, the war in Vietnam, and Desert Storm. The firearms displayed include a handmade Viet Cong copy of a Colt M1911A1 pistol, guns of several U.S. presidents; and Maj. John Hession's Model 1903 rifle -- one of very few American firearms loaned to Britain at the beginning of World War II that was returned.
	Gallery XII: For the Fun Of It takes the viewer back to the 1950s, depicting a young boy's bedroom, complete with Hopalong Cassidy linoleum, and a Daisy 1000-shot Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine BB gun. Some of the firearms include Winchester, Remington, and Savage pump-action rifles of the type commonly used at shooting galleries, and 14 revolvers that belonged to exhibition shooter Ed McGivern.
	Gallery XIII: Firearm Traditions for Today features exhibits on shotgun fun and modern shotgun shell technology, target shooting, engraved sporting guns from around the world, a display of firearms used by law enforcement agencies, and a study collection of fake collectors' arms.

American Personae explores individuals who have made outstanding contributions to history and who have become legends for their inventive genius, participation in significant events, or contributions to firearms development.

Artistry combined with craftsmanship results in symbolic, aesthetically pleasing, functional and treasured firearms.

Relive the Competitions that have become a part of our great firearm legacy.

Learn how the Economics and Commerce of firearm manufacturing have evolved as an industry that originally supplied only the nobility and the military has grown to meet demands of the common people.

Find out why Freedom and Liberty have come to be so intrinsically associated with the American Second Amendment "right of the people to keep and bear arms."

From early muzzleloaders to modern hunting rifles, look at the wide variety of firearms that have been used for Hunting.

See the firearms that have helped Law Enforcement officers keep the peace, protect the innocent and bring criminals to justice.

Track the influence that Military requirements have had on the design, development and production of firearms through history.

Recreation with firearms is limited only by inventiveness. See the wide variety of firearms used by generations of recreational shooters.

Explore how advances in Technology & Manufacturing have often revolutionized the firearm industry.