John Moses Browning

Utahns don't want state firearm, poll shows

Utah goes ga-ga for guns

The Utah House (www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=14148152) passed a bill by a 51-19 vote Wednesday designating the Browning pistol as the official state gun.

State gun just a start for Utah-born inventors

In just a few weeks, the Utah State Legislature, 2011 version, will debate a proposal by Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, that the Browning model 1911 handgun, invented right here in Utah exactly 100 years ago by John Moses Browning, be officially adopted as the state gun.