Guns of the NRA: National Sporting Arms Museum

These guns reflect the three-part theme of the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum at Bass Pro Shops: HUNTING: A timeline of four centuries of hunting arms in America including the primitive arms of the earliest explorers and settlers, buffalo guns, early repeaters, and long rifles and plains rifles, along with more modern arms from the classic bolt action rifles and pump shotguns of the 20th century through the most modern AR type and other semi-auto guns of today.

The story of the conservation movement in America, highlighted by the guns of Theodore Roosevelt and company. FREEDOM: American military arms from the 1770s through the 21st century. They all are from the collection of America’s most-visited firearms museum, which welcomed over one million visitors in its first three and a half years of operation.