Voters on Tuesday preferred the Winchester Model 1873 rifle in early returns as their favorite to become Idaho’s state gun.
The Model 1873 had received 31.2% of the vote as of 1:10 a.m. Wednesday. The Winchester Model 1894 was next with 25.4%.
The vote, which was on a nonbinding advisory question, pit six firearms against each other for the possible honorific. The state Legislature would have to take action to make the designation official.
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I’m in Idaho, and it was fucking infuriating to see it on the ballot. I’m going to start a citizen initiative to replace it with a Nerf Gun and call the initiative “Stop wasting peoples time with bullshit” initiative.
Granted, this state is so fucking stupidly red everything in the ballot is infuriating, but still