Texas plans to designate official state gun

wnd.com ^ | 4/10/2017 | unknown

[rktman]

The Texas state dish is chili, its tree is the pecan and its fish is the Guadalupe bass. And soon, Texas may have an explosive addition to its set of official symbols: plans are afoot for a state gun.

Though Texas lawmakers through the years have seen fit to designate dozens of symbols, including an official pollinator (the western honey bee), cooking implement (the cast-iron Dutch oven) and shell (the lightning whelk), they have not yet given the seal of approval to a weapon, despite the state’s famous fondness for arms.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The Winchester 1873, specifically. By 1892, the West was pretty much won and settlers were everywhere and the Cowboys were winding down.

[schurmann]

“Winchester’s slogan was “The gun that won the west”.”

By the time the first rifles stamped “Winchester” began hitting store shelves, winning the west was pretty much over and done with. That was 1867.

Historians still argue about which gun had the biggest role in winning the western portions of the continent.

Sam Colt’s earliest revolvers appeared in 1836 (long guns and handguns), but did not appear in significant numbers until after the Mexican-American War. After the Colt patents expired, competing arms appeared in the 1850s, but did not challenge Colt’s dominance for some years. The largest competitor was Remington.

Other scholars credit the double-barrel percussion-fired muzzle loading shotgun: very popular with sodbusters.

Lever action repeating rifles were relative latecomers: 1860 for the Spencer, 1861 for the Henry (made at Oliver F Winchester’s facilities).

Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson introduced their first revolver in 1857: a diminutive 7-shot arm. The 22 Short rimfire cartridge it fired was introduced at the same time, and is still in production.

Many other gunmakers offered their creations on the market, but few are remembered today. Take your pick, on which mattered the most. But it was a mop-up operation after the American Civil War.

[Yo-Yo]

The new weapon, the five-pound frontier equivalent of a nuclear bomb, was called the “””Walker Colt”””.

A source of pride for any Texan, I am sure. But us damn Yankees still know it as the Colt Walker model of 1847.

[tumblindice]

“But it was a mop-up operation after the American Civil War.”

Thanks for the history lesson but tell that to George A. Custer.

You know, they found Custer breathing his last on the morning of June 27, 1876.

They asked him if he had any last words:

“Yeah I do. Arrows hurt.
“And why did the Injins have Winchesters while we had these single-shot boom sticks?”

Honest Injin.

[tumblindice]

Close, if exactly backwards is close.

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/how-the-civil-war-became-the-indian-wars/?_r=0

The War of Northern Aggression segued into the western Indian wars.

Maybe you’re thinking about earlier fights/skirmishes Texas Rangers had with Commanch and others, and even a cannibal Indiana tribe.

[tumblindice]

Indiana=Indian

(Although my great-great Hoosier grandfather enjoyed many fine meals with tasty Texicans, heh)

[JBW1949]

I was basing it on the name of the company...I didn’t when he died...The company name lived on...

[JBW1949]

OK...

[archy]

The brainchild of Chicago-born dentist Richard Jordan Gatling in several of its variations was considered as Indiana's state firearm, since Dr. Gatling first demonstrated it publicly in Indianapolis at the dawn of America's Civil War. But the Pennsylvania long rifle as crafted by Indiana gunsmith John Small was at least as appropriate, since it went back to Indiana's earliest days, Small having served as a Captain of Militia and as the first sheriff in the territory.

Gatling's gun would have been a good choice too, Indiana volunteers having served in Cuba with Roosevelt's 1st Volunteer Cavalry *Rough Riders* with their Gatling battery, Indians Regiments of the Civil War having previouslyfielded the things, and a modern Gatling still serves aboard the indiana Air Guard's aircraft. And at the Hoosier Navy base at Crane, IN, Gatling mini-guns are lovingly rebuilt and maintained at the small arms shop there.

Small's flintlock rifle won the spotlight, but the Gatling may make a starring appearance yet. Those Gatling Guns are hard to ignore.

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[Redcitizen]

No beans. But no need to raise a stink about it. ;)

[Redcitizen]

No horsing around there.

[Redcitizen]

How do you know Custer was well dressed for the battle of Little Bighorn? He was wearing an Arrow shirt.

[Celtic Conservative]

Because it was made in Michigan.

CC

[Delta 21]

Here we go.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3540271/posts

https://www.sofmag.com/what-is-your-states-gun/

[Slyfox]

That was cool.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Colt Walker is the most quintessentially Texan gun to my mind, just as the American long rifle is intertwined with the history of Pennsylvania and Kentucky.

I hope it doesn't end up being something like "The Ruger AR556, official firearm of the state of Texas -- available at most fine retailers."

[JimRed]

Classic six-shooter, maybe?

[rktman]

🔫. Hmmm. A Mini-gun is kind of a six gun. Right?

[schurmann]

“...Thanks for the history lesson but tell that to George A. Custer. ...”

George Armstrong Custer, USMA 1861 (second wave), graduated last in his class at West Point - in the second class to be graduated that year. Given the quality of instruction, coming in dead last is still a good showing.

He was promoted to Brigadier General just two years later - something of a political stunt but he proved equal to it. Pinned on his second star at the age of 23.

It’s ill-advised to judge Custer solely by the results at Little Big Horn. Every commander suffers the occasional bad day ... the profession is subject to an irreducible minimum of mischances. The consequences can be much worse, compared to other professions.