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Indiana soon will have an official state rifle to go along with the state tree, state stone and state flower. The Indiana House voted 78-2 on Tuesday to declare the Grouseland the state’s official rifle. It is one of only six remaining long rifles made by famed Hoosier gunsmith John Small in the early 1800s. [...] One day in 1889, John Browning was on a firing range when he noticed that when a friend fired his rifle, a clump of weeds in front of the muzzle swayed with the blast. “His inventor’s mind immediately told him that this represented energy which might well be put to productive use,” David Miller wrote [...] Virtually all states have a state bird, information pills a state flower and a state motto. But Utah soon could be among the first to have an official state firearm — the Browning model 1911 .45-caliber handgun, website like this designed by Utah gunmaker John Moses Browning. Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman — a former police [...] One of the most significant developments in firearms occurred about a hundred years ago and next year, gun owners and manufacturers will mark a century in the life of the .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol. The Model 1911, named for the year it was adopted by the Army as the official sidearm for U.S. forces, has [...] |
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