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Virtually all states have a state bird, 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, designed by Utah gunmaker John Moses Browning. Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman — a former police officer, a life [...] Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is backing a new plan supported by the National Rifle Association that would remove limits on importing antique or collectible weapons into the United States. Read Crapo’s news release below. Crapo Co-Sponsors Firearms Import Bill Idaho Senator Mike Crapo has co-sponsored bipartisan legislation [...] Acting on the misguided rationalization that the historic and outdated M1 Garand semiautomatic rifle is a threat to American public safety, the State Department has canceled plans by the Republic of Korea to return nearly 100,000 surplus rifles to these shores and the U.S. consumer market. Granted, the M1 was a military [...] U.S. senators and representatives from both sides of the aisle are urging Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to revisit the State Department’s March 2010 decision disallowing the importation of M1 rifles and M1 carbines from South Korea. In a letter to Secretary Clinton, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and 15 other senators state that the importation [...] U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today led a bipartisan group of Senators including Senators Mike Enzi (R-WY), Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), and others in sending a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, urging her to reverse the State Department’s reported decision to ban the sale of surplus antique rifles from South Korea to qualified [...] While much of the mainstream media ignored the Korean M1 story, there is still hope for collectors that the rifles, which were blocked for importation to the United States, could still return home. Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) have sponsored a bill “to amend the Arms Export Control Act [...] According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and M1 Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941. As rifles, they are especially well-suited to community defense in an emergency, as in [...] 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. |
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