November 3 in Firearms History

Annie Oakley
born Phoebe Ann Mosey
August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926

"Miss Annie Oakley", "Little Sure Shot", "Little Miss Sure Shot"

She hit 100 clay targets in a row from 16 yards  at age 62 in a 1922

Oakley's personal possessions, performance memorabilia, and firearms are on permanent exhibit in the Garst Museum and the National Annie Oakley Center in Greenville, Ohio

Oakley believed that women should learn to use a gun for the empowering image that it gave

November 3, 1957

Soviet Union launched Sputnik II
- carried a dog named Laika
(a stray from the streets of Moscow)
- 2008 a monument to Laika in Moscow was made
- first inhabited space capsule

Idaho Voters Choose the Winchester Model 1873 as State Gun of ID (Advisory Vote)

The vote is advisory only: the Idaho legislature must still act to make it law

November 3, 2026

• 1st = Utah - March 16, 2011 - M1911 pistol
• 2nd = Arizona - April 28, 2011 - Colt Single Action Army revolver
• 3rd = Indiana - March 6, 2012 (final passage; signed March 15) - Grouseland Rifle
• 4th = West Virginia - April 5, 2013 - Hall Model 1819 flintlock rifle
• 5th = Kentucky - June 25, 2013 - Kentucky long rifle
• 6th = Pennsylvania - June 26, 2014 - Pennsylvania long rifle
• 7th = Alaska - July 2014 - Winchester Model 70 rifle
• 8th = Tennessee - February 24, 2016 - Barrett M82 rifle
• 9th = Arkansas - April 5, 2019 - Shotgun
• 10th = Texas - May 24, 2021 - Colt Walker revolver
• 11th = Missouri - July 6, 2023 - Hawken rifle
• Texas adds a second state gun - May 29, 2025 - Cannon
• Idaho - November 3, 2026 - Winchester Model 1873 wins an advisory vote (not yet law)

David “Carbine” Marshall Williams
Nov 13, 1900 – Jan 8, 1975

floating chamber and the short-stroke piston

Colt Manufacturing Company, U.S. Ordnance Department, Remington Arms, Winchester Repeating Arms