March 6 in Firearms History

Battle of the Alamo
(February 23 – March 6, 1836)

In the early morning of March 6, Santa Anna ordered his troops to storm on the Alamo. Travis’ artillery decimated the first and then the second Mexican charge, but in just over an hour between 182 - 257 Texians died, while 600 Mexicans were killed or wounded.

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Georg Johann LugerMarch 6, 1849 – Dec 22, 1923
Designed of the Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.

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June 14, 1871 - March 6, 1968

Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)

designer of the

• Tokarev TT-30 pistol
• TT-33 pistol
• Tokarev SVT-38 rifle
• SVT-40  rifle

2012

Indiana designates Grouseland Rifle as State Gun

• 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 - March 15, 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)

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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