A peculiar State, indeed.Utah lawmakers continue to struggle to find just the right way to honor the late firearms inventor John Moses Browning. Unfortunately, their latest idea, naming the Browning model 1911 pistol the state gun, is another miss.
Earlier this year, one senator wanted to attach Browning’s name to an existing holiday, perhaps Memorial Day, Veterans Day or Pioneer Day. That plan didn’t gain much support, thank goodness, so, now, a different lawmaker is back with a different idea. Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, wants to declare the Browning model 1911 .45-caliber pistol the state gun.
As far as we can tell, no other state has a state gun, so that would make Utah the first. But that isn’t the kind of notoriety the state needs. Like all places, Utah has its peculiarities. This surely would be another.
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Say what you want, but the man was a genius and a great American. I'm sure more than a couple of GI's from Chateau Thierry to Bastogne to Chosin to Hue City owe their lives to his 1911. The BAR and M1919 defended the world from the menace of fascism and communism for decades, and his legendary Ma Deuce still soldiers on to this day. Weighed on the scales of history, I'd say his contributions have been much more of a force for good than evil. Why not give him some well-deserved and long overdue recognition?
ReplyDeleteNever heard of the Kentucky Rifle?
ReplyDeleteColin, Isn't this the kind of thing that you pro-gun types are always ridiculing, you know the anthropomorphization of an inanimate object.
ReplyDelete"The BAR and M1919 defended the world from the menace of fascism and communism for decades, and his legendary Ma Deuce still soldiers on to this day."