Oddly Enough Blog

Are they high-caliber lawmakers, or what?

Robert Basler

Apr 21, 2011 14:24 UTC

Those signs of the onrushing Apocalypse that I like to chronicle here are coming so fast I can barely keep track of them these days.

It turns out, the Arizona Legislature has just voted to make the Colt Single Action Army Revolver the state’s official firearm.

If you wonder why a state needs an official firearm, you could ask Utah, which last month designated the Browning M1911 semiautomatic pistol as its official gun.

“Anytime you see a Western movie, the revolver in John Wayne’s hand is a Colt single action,” the sponsor of the Arizona bill told us.