![]() A garrison of one officer and 20 men guarded a store house of 30,000 muskets, pistols, pikes and swords. In 1816, it established an armory across the Blue Ridge Mountains on the edge of what was then the frontier in Lexington. ![]() Following the War of 1812, the Virginia legislature saw the need to expand the state’s arsenal system. VMI got its start as a place where firearms were stored. Keith Gibson, executive director of the VMI Museum System, explains the museum's collection of U.S. ![]() martial arms showcases how American ingenuity influenced firearm development around the world.Ĭol. The Institute’s collection of early American repeating firearms, Civil War weapons and U.S. Nowhere is the American side of this technological evolution (and sometimes revolution) on better display than in the museums of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). ![]() The first firearms were slow-loading, single-shot affairs and since their inception, innovators have sought ways to reload quicker or fire more than one shot without reloading. The history of firearms development is the story of the attempt to get one more shot. ![]()
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