June 25 in Firearms History

June 25, 1876 – June 26, 1876

• Custer's Last Stand
•  in southeastern Montana Territory
• Lt Colonel George Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn
• 31 officers, 586 soldiers, 33 Indian scouts and 20 civilian employees
• June 26 = 262 were dead, 68 were wounded and six later died of their wounds
• overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, who were led by Crazy Horse & others

Anniversary of the start of the Korean War (1950)

Kentucky Adopts the Kentucky long rifle as State Gun of KY

5th state to adopt a state gun (out of just 11 states so far)

June 25, 2013

• 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)