This Day in History: November 4

Resolved, That it be recommended to several Assemblies or conventions of the colonies respectively, to set and keep their gunsmiths at work, to manufacture good firelocks, with bayonets; each firelock to made with a good bridle lock, 3/4 of an inch bore, and of good substance at the breech, the barrel to be 3 feet 8 inches in length, the bayonet to be 18 inches in the blade, with a steel ramrod, the upper loop thereof to be trumpet mouthed ... and that until a sufficient quantity of good arms can be manufactured, they import as man as are wanted, by all the means in their power.