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Nevada
Below you are links to
informational sites related to the Nevada Gun laws and regulations. (
Legal lawyer stuff as follows:
Center-fire- Greenfield Industries are not responsible nor
endorses any information found on listed links. blah, blah,
blah. You get the picture. Take everything you read with a
grain of salt.) We have even included some
comical links such as the
Brady Campaign , because everybody enjoys a little
fictional reading from time to time.
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There were many Spanish
explorers in the 1770s who came near the Nevada area, but it
wasn't until 50 years later that fur traders venturing into
the Rocky Mts. publicized the region.
Nevada's first settlement was Genoa, near Carson City, settled
by Mormons in 1849, then called Mormon Station.
Nevada's name was adopted in 1861 when territory was
established. The name was derived from the Spanish language,
meaning "snow-capped".
Nevada was admitted as part of Utah Territory in 1854 and then
as the Territory of Nevada on March 2, 1861.
On October 31, 1864 the territory was then admitted as the
State of Nevada. This date is now celebrated as a state
holiday.
Nevada was made famous by the discovery of the fabulous
Comstock Lode in 1859 and its mines have produced large
quantities of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, mercury,
barite, and tungsten. Oil was discovered in 1954. Gold now far
exceeds all other minerals in value of production.
As an act of 1986 federal legislation, Great Basin National
Park was created, the only national park in the state, which
includes the area around Wheeler Peak and Lehman Caves in
eastern Nevada.
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