Utah lawmakers propose M1911 as official state gun
SALT LAKE CITY – State lawmakers are debating whether to designate a semiautomatic pistol as the official gun of Utah, despite protests from people who believe it's inappropriate because of recent mass shootings.
The bill to make the Browning M1911 the official gun breezed through a committee hearing this week and is scheduled to be debated by the full House as early as Wednesday.
Republican Rep. Carl Wimmer said the state should have the gun as one of its state symbols to honor John Browning, a Utah native who invented it in 1911.
A "state gun"?
I ask you, is this really necessary?
More to the point, don't these legislators have any very real problems and issues that need attention and addressing and not nonsense like this, particularly on the heels of the Arizona slaughter?
Even ignoring the Columbine and Arizona shootings, etc., shouldn't the legislators be doing more of their constituent's real business instead of nonsense like this?
I'd think so, anyway, but "Yee-haw! Let's git our guns, Clem!"
Ironic aside: The Gun Violence Prevention Center has a board member named Steve Gunn.
Charles Dickens would have loved that. It sounds like something he'd have written.
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I'd love to have a legislature like Texas--the regular session is limited to 140 days every 2 years, unless the governor calls an additional 30 day special session.
If I can't have that, I'd rather they waste time on silly stuff like the official state flavor. We need government, but we don't need nearly as much as we get--limiting the time that the legislature can add new rules is likely to help.
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