Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Idaho has an official state bird (the mountain bluebird) and a state song (“Here We Have Idaho”), and now they’ll have an official state gun. Voters picked the Winchester Model 1873, historically nicknamed “the Gun That Won the West.”

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