NRA National Firearms Museum, Fairfax, VA

I was going into this museum with a plan to spend there no more than an hour — hour and half. I mean, how long do you need to look at guns, amirite? Wrong. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*G5zcfBhnL_7SejUT0oX3Sg.jpeg" style="height:460px; width:700px" /> The museum collection is huge. For the first ten minutes I was under the impression that they just stuck all these rifles into glass cases so tightly because they’re all the same and there’s nothing to see here. Obviously, I was wrong, that every gun was extremely unique in its own way, had a history, and was a piece of art. When I finally got out of the room, hosting Robert E. Petersen’s collection of double rifles and Gatlings, art subsided (though not completely) and I realized how much I still have to see. <a href="https://commanderpirx.medium.com/nra-national-firearms-museum-fairfax-va-170cb818424e">Learn More</a>