re: #217 BryanS

Answer to point two—-yes, we can blame them.

Point one—a holiday? For a gun maker? That’s almost as freaky as Loughner posing nude in front of a mirror wearing nothing but a red g-string. (ref [Link: abcnews.go.com…]

Well, why not? John Browning was a brilliant designer, and the firearms he designed are even now still being built and used to defend our freedom. And for any people who decry war profiteering, John Browning refused royalties on the machine guns and pistols made for the Army and Marines, taking instead a smaller flat fee. John Moses Browning: Superlative Gun Designer and American Patriot. That seems worthy of consideration as a state holiday.