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+33hMother Jones This week, the Winchester ‘73 won an election in Idaho—endorsed by the state’s Republican attorney general. It defeated the Colt M1911 pistol, which supporters backed as the most antifascist option on the ballot. ↗
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This week, the Winchester ‘73 won an election in Idaho—endorsed by the state’s Republican attorney general. It defeated the Colt M1911 pistol, which supporters backed as the most antifascist option on the ballot.

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motherjones.com··By Sophie Hurwitz
Shots Fired: Why Half a Million Idahoans Voted For a Gun
The Winchester Model 1873, an early American lever-action rifle, was branded as “the gun that won the West” by its manufacturers. In the eponymous Western film Winchester ‘73 (trailer tagline: “a weapon that promised life, but dealt out death”) the rifle stars in a massacre of native people and in multiple shootouts,…
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