And Browning, the man, who worked on the two separately—the M1911 being conceived in 1905 and the .380 ACP being introduced three years later in the Colt 1908 Pocket Hammerless pistol—probably ...

Utah is on the verge of becoming the first US state to select an official gun, to honour the memory of John Browning, the inventor of the M1911 pistol.

The adoption of the M1911 came to be through a lengthy trials process and a partnership between Colt’s Mfg. and John Moses Browning.

The Browning M1911 semiautomatic pistol may soon join the sego lily, Rocky Mountain elk and sugar beet as official state symbols. Supporters say the .45-caliber handgun has defended freedom around ...

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.

Last year (2011) marked the 100 year anniversary of Browning’s M1911 pistol design, produced by Colt. This is made all the more remarkable in that he also designed the .45 ACP ...

The Browning M1911 joins the state fossil (allosaurus), fruit (cherry), gem (topaz), bird (sea gull) and other symbols with official designation. The gun was designed by Utah native John Browning.

An M1911 pistol designed by John M. Browning. Too soon? In a head-scratching move, Utah’s 24 existing state symbols—a blue spruce tree, honeybee, and Dutch oven among then—will now be joined ...

The Browning M1911, which was invented exactly 100 years ago in Ogden, just north of Salt Lake City, will become the 25th "state symbol", joining such items as a tree, ...

Utah has become the first US state to designate an official state firearm - the Browning M1911, a move critics said was divisive.