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Rifle that won the West gets bullet

The iconic American firearm known as “The Gun that Won the West”--the Winchester--featured in so many Hollywood Westerns, is now riding off into the sunset for good.

Workers at the factory that produced the quintessential cowboy rifle for 140 years were laid off this week amid howls of protest from gun-lovers around the world, and the plant closed yesterday. “John Wayne and so many actors carried a Winchester: They didn’t say: ‘Hand me my rifle’. They said: ‘Hand me my Winchester’,” David Bichrest, the secretary of the Texas-based Winchester Arms Collectors Association, said.

Read entire article at Times (UK)