Posted on 12/30/2021 4:05:12 AM PST by COBOL2Java
From "The Best of 2021"
Utah’s state flower is the Sego lily; the state animal is the Rocky Mountain Elk, and "Utah ... This Is the Place" is the state song. However, did you know that it also has a state gun? In fact, nine states have official firearms that represent their home of the free!
Based on the timing I would say ND was posting while I was writing my comment which has been my problem since arriving here with the class of ‘98. I’m slow. When one attempts to insure accuracy in what is posted, you are generally behind most others. I try not to let it bother me.
You also said something I didn’t catch until your response. You apparently recognize Kristy isn’t perfect or necessarily conservative in the true sense of the word.
“You also said something I didn’t catch until your response. You apparently recognize Kristy isn’t perfect or necessarily conservative in the true sense of the word.”
Thanks, she’s likely ‘conservative’ in the old sense, when Republicans were for big business and Democrats were for the little people. But things have flipped now, but most of the Republicans are having a tough time digesting that - supporting Big Business now means open borders and outsourcing to China (along with vaccine mandates), and Little people are Americans who are not getting rich (or staying healthy due to the ‘vaccines’) in this new arrangement.
She had opportunities to prove which side she was on, and while she gives our side lip service (such as saying she opposes vaccine mandates and cross-dressers taking over girls’ sports), she ultimately sides with the Left when it counts (saying that she stop companies from vaccine mandates and vetoing legislation that would have told boys to stick to boys sports).
...and there’s one guy who insults everyone who points out her flaws (including me, yesterday), so rather than wasting my time with him, I’ll just attack the person who’s paying him.
Tennessee wins. :)
Isn’t she the governor of SOUTH Dakota?
Very well stated for one who doesn’t live here.
If you remember or figure out who the person is that is causing greif for those willing to tell the pros and cons of Governor Noem I would like to know. Especially if it turns out to be someone in State. I remain politically very active and like to know who the enemy is while remaining civil and appearing harmless. There is more but that will have to be sufficient publicly.
Your friend can pick up the stripped down version for the low low price of $8,800.
Florida should adopt the AR-15 or the M2HB for border security duty.
Mississippi should have the historical M1841 rifle gleaned from the German Jaeger....used by Jefferson Davis troops in tne Mexican war .....an early rifle while most troops still used muskets
Or the 870 for duck hunting lore
Or the marlin 30-30 which used to be the affordable deer rifle
Browning was a Morman and his first gun shop was in Navoo, IL before he headed west to Utah. His Navoo gun shop is now a museum. But be aware that if you visit it, you will be getting calls asking if you are interested in joining the Morman church. They must have been able to use my license plate to look me up.
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Interestingly enough, Joseph Smith invented license plates.
(I kid)
You are mistaken. The gun shop in Nauvoo was that of his father, Jonathan Browning.
Jonathan Browning was born in Tennessee literally just a couple of miles from where Beretta built its new factory in 2015/16. Jonathan was a blacksmith-turned-gunsmith and also invented guns, notably a repeating "harmonica" gun, which he made in both rifle and pistol forms, and a single-set-trigger flintlock rifle. Browning Arms has reproduced the set trigger muzzleloader from time to time.
Jonathan took up with a Mormon congregation passing through and followed them to Utah. He did not marry his third wife, Elizabeth Clark, who was the mother of John Moses, until after they had reached the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Johnathan married Elizabeth in March of 1854 and JMB was born in Ogden in the Utah territory in January of 1855.
Not exactly. When Walker met with Colt in 1846 he was not Ranger, he was a soldier serving in the US Army in the prosecution of the Mexican-American War. In these days of Kumbaya Wokeism, many don't want to remember the Indians as bloodthirsty savages, but the Texas Rangers were formed in 1823 specifically to protect the Texican settlers who the Mexicans had lured into building homesteads in Comanche territory, in the full knowledge that this would bring them into direct conflict with the most war-like Indian tribe of all.
Walker he had been a Ranger in the days when the Comanche had them outgunned because all the Rangers were armed with was two single-shot flintlock pistols. A Comanche warrior could loose 20 arrows in the same time it took a Ranger to reload just one of his muzzle-loading sidearms. Which no doubt was what inspired him to see the potential in Colt's revolvers.
But Walker didn't design anything, he just told Sam Colt how the Colt's Paterson revolver could be modified to better suit his needs. He gave Colt the specs and Colt did the designing.
Colt's greatest gift was not as a firearm designer but as an entrepreneur. For instance, he had raised funds to build his Paterson revolver by selling hits of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) to the public in a sort of "traveling medicine show."
But the Paterson wasn't enough to keep the lights on and Colt went bankrupt trying to sell them, so he wasn't about to turn down the opportunity to sell Walker whatever the hell he wanted, so long as he paid cash up front.
The sale of 1100 of the Walker revolvers kept Colt afloat long enough to come up with the 1851 Navy revolver, which sold so well (+/-275,000 copies in total) that by 1855 Sam Colt was making more guns than any other private manufacturer in the world.
So not only did Colt's Walker revolver keep Sam Colt from going back into the carnival sideshow business, it was a stepping stone in the evolution of the revolver, and it was instrumental in gaining an advantage in the war for control of Texas (and the rest of Comancheria).
So I'd say it definitely deserves to be enshrined as the official firearm of the State of Texas.
Your photo isn't quite right - California's official gun is the green model, that shoots compressed pellets of BS (instead of nerf projectiles), in an effort to "combat climate change"...
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