Episode 8: Machine Gun?

 In the season finale, Danny and Ashley duke it out over semantics and whether or not the Gatling Gun is a machine gun. Spoiler alert: Ashley wins…

We have two Gatling guns in the collection, an 1883 used during Project Vulcan and an 1875 like the ones usually depicted in TV and movies.

Credits: Produced by Kamila Kudelska. Theme song by Corey Anco.

Episode 7: The Museum in the Middle

“Gun Culture” is a hot topic in today’s society. Danny and Ashley discuss the role of a museum in the gun debate. 

Views from the Evolution of Firearms History gallery of the new CFM, down the length of the timeline and at the end where we put cultural timelines.

Credits: Produced by Kamila Kudelska. Theme song by Corey Anco.

Episode 6: The Point and Shoot Gun of the West

Ashley and Danny embark on an odd but spirited conversation comparing Colt Single Actions and Glocks. 

A Colt Single Action and a Glock from the CFM collection, they’re different, but also similar, trust us.

Credits: Produced by Kamila Kudelska. Theme song by Corey Anco.

Episode 5: Never Say Lever Action!

Can you tell the history of Winchester without talking about the lever action? Maybe not, but Danny and Ashley try to in this episode.

Non L/A Winchesters, a wooden mockup of the Liberator shotgun, a Winchester Light Rifle, a Lee-Navy bolt action, Winchester roller-skates, and an early box of Winchester ammunition.

Credits: Produced by Kamila Kudelska. Theme song by Corey Anco.

Episode 4: Nefarious Artifacts

Museums and collectors sometimes have unofficial policies not to collect artifacts used in traumatic events. Danny and Ashley discuss guns used in crime and tragedy and whether they would display them in the CFM.

Image of one of the trap guns in the collection and detail and overview images of the Lincoln Head rifle.

Credits: Produced by Kamila Kudelska. Theme song by Corey Anco.

Episode 3: The Real Gun Designers of the Connecticut River Valley

Danny and Ashley spill the tea about the drama behind gun design and the race to innovation in the 19th century 

    Credits: Produced by Kamila Kudelska. Theme song by Corey Anco.

    Episode 2: A History of the World in One Gun

    Danny and Ashley use the wheellock firearm to see how many different histories can be told through one artifact 

    Signed English Wheellock rifle from the CFM collection, currently on display.

    Credits: Produced by Kamila Kudelska. Theme song by Corey Anco.

    Episode 1: From Winchester To Coca Cola

    In the series premiere of History Unloaded, Danny and Ashley talk about how a small town in Wyoming became the home of the nation’s leading firearms museum.

    • O.F. Winchester’s Jennings rifle that he requested from R.S. Lawrence, “for his collection”
    • Staff laying out cases when the collection first came to Cody.
    • Guns going into cases during the Renovation
    Part of the collection (mostly Winchester 1893s & 1897s) await re-installation in the new CFM.

    Credits: Produced by Kamila Kudelska. Theme song by Corey Anco.