Guns and Roses: Arizona and Utah Move to Adopt State Guns

The Atlantic ^ | 28 February, 2011 | John Hendel

[marktwain]

State flower, state motto, state song and now ... state gun?

Call it shots fired. Two states have officially moved to declare state firearms in 2011, less than two months after the Arizona massacre that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) grievously injured on January 8th.

In both states, Utah and Arizona, the bills seem likely to become law.

The Utah legislature took up a bill certifying the Browning Model 1911 automatic pistol as the official gun of Utah just 10 days after the shooting that rocked the nation. Used by military or law-enforcement personnel since being introduced 100 years ago this March, the pistol would join a long line of Utah state symbols, from the bird (sea gull) to fruit (cherry) to rock (coal).

When the measure is signed by the state's governor, it will be the first time in American history any state has elevated a firearm into a state symbol.

State Rep. Carl Wimmer, a Republican who had introduced the bill in December, encountered little public opposition during the debate on it after the shooting in Tucson. At a late January hearing, five people spoke in its favor and one against; an amendment hearing a week later was similarly lopsided. "Representatives, this bill is very simple," Rep. Wimmer told his fellow lawmakers in late Jan. "This is a once-in-a-century opportunity.... This particular firearm is regarded as the finest handgun in the history of the world."

[marktwain]

This is the Food Commentator chiming in. The idea that guns should not be a normal part of American life is a prime object of Progressivism.

[Vaquero]

well the slimebag who killed that little girl and brained the congresswoman used a Glock...not a 1911.
....
so the Marxist weenies at ‘the Atlantic’ should pack up their bags and go to Germany to protest...and leave America to her guns...

[Condor51]

In late February, Arizona legislators also offered that the state should have its own official state firearm: the historic Colt revolver.

COOL!
Now AZ needs an 'Official Dead Guy'.

And I nominate...(drum roll) .... Lester Moore!
This is on his Tombstone in Tombstone, AZ's Boot Hill.

HERE LIES
LESTER MOORE
FOUR SLUGS
FROM A 44
NO LES
NO MORE

Can't get much more historical than that.

"It works for me."

The 44-40, or 44 WCF, was the most popular cartridge used in the Old West as that was what the Winchester was chambered in. Two weapons one cartridge, very convenient.

[Winchesters were never chambered 'back then' in the .45 Long Colt round.]

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

I love this - because it gives the loons in the Brady Bunch with ther vapors and drives the booger-eating morons of the left up a wall.

Lock and load!

[FlingWingFlyer]

...left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) grievously injured...

I wish those "six dead" had cutesy little names like "Gabby". Maybe the piggies in the "media" would take the time to use their names. Okay, so they weren't RAT POLITICIANS but they were people who were murdered by a lunatic.

[beaversmom]

Thanks for posting that FWF. It cheeses me off every time I hear a report and no mention of the dead or other injured. I guess those people didn’t matter. I did see one article about some of the deceased awhile back and a lot of them were seniors. Very sad that their lives had to be ended in such a manner. Would be nice though to hear how their families are coping and how the other injured are coming along.

[FlingWingFlyer]

You're welcome. That's how I feel about this. All we hear about is "Gabby". I'm so tired of it. Six people were murdered and it's ALL ABOUT "GABBY". EVERYBODY LOVES "GABBY".

1.Christina-Taylor Green

2.Dorothy Morris

3.John Roll

4.Phyllis Schneck

5.Dorwan Stoddard

6.Gabriel Zimmerman

[Seruzawa]

I object to picking the 1911. We have grizzly bears in Utah. The Blackhawk .44mag is a better choice.

[willyd]

A friend of mine was a fishing guide in Alaska. His first season in Anchorage he was in a sporting goods store where he asked purchasing a 44. The guy in the store asked him what he wanted the 44 for. My friend told him he was a fishing guide and wanted the gun to protect himself from the Kodiak and Grizzlies. The guy in the store told him that if he was going to buy that 44 to protect him from the bears he should really consider filing that front sight down nice and smooth. When my friend as asked him why, he had this to say, “so when that bear shoves it straight up your #W%@ it won’t hurt as bad.” Great Alaska story...lol.

[Scythian]

Guns and Roses Sings 50's Era Song, pretty good too ...
Since I Don't Have You ...

[Dead Corpse]

Sturm Ruger is a Connecticut company. John Moses set up shop originally in Ogden, UT.

It fits...

I wonder if I could get a petition to have the DPMS LR-.308 designated as the MN State firearm...

[beaversmom]

Thanks for those names FWF: