That thread was about having katanas in museums, I was thinking having actual civil war weaponry in museums, which is more plausible, though I'm not sure if the weapons would work. Generally museum weapons are deactivated or too old to fire safely anyway... What about replicas made for civil war reenactment? They typically fire blanks but could be loaded with ammunition, especially the revolvers which are made to chamber modern ammunition. They do make like, newly manufactured replicas of ball-and-cap guns, and some older guns can actually be fired, but to my understanding everything at museum is deactivated generally because of liability and stuff. Well, then let's take the museum thing off the table, then, but I'm sure Kentucky would have a sizeable group of historic gun nuts who like collecting replicas of old guns.