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very Old West aficionado should make a pilgrimage to the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West [] in Cody, Wyo. The facility just underwent a $12 million top-to-bottom renovation, and its collection boasts some 7,000 firearms and 30,000 related artifacts from around the globe. Galleries in the 40,000-square-foot exhibit space include Firearms Basics and Orientation, Evolution of the Firearm, Modern Shooting Sports, Firearms of the West, Military History, Science of Firearms and

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