National Firearms Museum

The NRA National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia, displays roughly 3,000 firearms tracing six centuries of American history. Owned by the National Rifle Association, it sits at the organisation's headquarters. The collection spans colonial flintlocks, Civil War rifles, frontier revolvers and modern sporting arms, with galleries devoted to presidential weapons, Hollywood western firearms and a World War I trench diorama. Visitors walk chronologically arranged cases with detailed mechanical and historical notes. Admission is free. The museum draws collectors, hunters and curious visitors interested in the role of the gun in American identity, presenting both technical craft and politically charged cultural history side by side.