2012

Indiana designates Grouseland Rifle as State Gun

• Tuesday, March 6, 2012 – Representatives voted 78-2
  – approved 48-2 by the Indiana Senate
  
• one of six remaining long rifles made by Hoosier gunsmith John Small
  – between 1803 and 1812
  

John Small

• first sheriff in what was to become the state of Indiana
• adjutant general of the territorial militia
• Revolutionary War veteran
• gunsmith
• 1785 moved to Vincennes

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