2aguy
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I saw this today and anti gunners will sometimes cite Tombstone as a model for gun control...of course that little fight near the O.K. corral shows how dumb this proposition is...as does the fact that one Earp was murdered, by a gun toting killer, and another maimed, by a gun toting killer...but they still lie about the old west....
Gun Control Laws In The Wild West? | Extrano's Alley, more than a gun blog
Those laws were generally imposed by saloon keepers seeking to keep damages to mirrors and other expensive furnishings to a minimum. As soon as it was discovered that enforcing such laws was a good way to cut the take from layout and the poker tables, as men went to less picky recreational facilities, enforcement stopped..
When people talk about gun controls in Deadwood, it is on record that Jack McCall had openly carried a gun the night he murdered James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, and that most of the other patrons of t Nuttal and Mann’s Saloon. I find no credible evidence that Deadwood’s “check your gun” law was ever seriously enforced, making the law essentially null.
Staying with Hickok for a moment, the night Hickok murdered Phil Coe, a group of men were using the stars as targets, and Hickok told them to stop, that shooting guns was illegal in Dodge before he returned to his poker game. A short time later, a shot sounded almost immediately outside and Hickok once again sauntered outside to see about the disturbance. Where he met Phil Coe trying to return his gun to holster.
“It’s all right,” Marshal, witnesses said Coe told Hickok. “I shot at a dog.”
Hickock dropped his hand in his pocket, wrapped his hand around the butt of a derringer and put a .41 bullet in Phil Coe’s midsection. Coe died, in great agony, the next day.
Leaving the “hero of the McCandless massacre,” and urning to Tombstone, yes, here was a law requiring guns to be checked when someone hit town. But the “Cowboys,” the Clanton faction had no reason to suspect the law existed, since it was “enforced in the breach instead of the promise.” So the “Gamblers,” the Earps and fellow gamblers, walked in on the Clanton’s at the OK Corral and things got smoky, that day in Tombstone.
Those are just three of literally hundreds of similar cases I could cite. While City Councils, often consisting of self appointed saloon keepers, wrote plenty of gun control laws, none called for gun confiscation, none called for limits on gun purchases, none called for State permission to buy a gun, and so far as contemporary history goes, n it appears none were ever seriously enforced.
Gun Control Laws In The Wild West? | Extrano's Alley, more than a gun blog
Those laws were generally imposed by saloon keepers seeking to keep damages to mirrors and other expensive furnishings to a minimum. As soon as it was discovered that enforcing such laws was a good way to cut the take from layout and the poker tables, as men went to less picky recreational facilities, enforcement stopped..
When people talk about gun controls in Deadwood, it is on record that Jack McCall had openly carried a gun the night he murdered James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, and that most of the other patrons of t Nuttal and Mann’s Saloon. I find no credible evidence that Deadwood’s “check your gun” law was ever seriously enforced, making the law essentially null.
Staying with Hickok for a moment, the night Hickok murdered Phil Coe, a group of men were using the stars as targets, and Hickok told them to stop, that shooting guns was illegal in Dodge before he returned to his poker game. A short time later, a shot sounded almost immediately outside and Hickok once again sauntered outside to see about the disturbance. Where he met Phil Coe trying to return his gun to holster.
“It’s all right,” Marshal, witnesses said Coe told Hickok. “I shot at a dog.”
Hickock dropped his hand in his pocket, wrapped his hand around the butt of a derringer and put a .41 bullet in Phil Coe’s midsection. Coe died, in great agony, the next day.
Leaving the “hero of the McCandless massacre,” and urning to Tombstone, yes, here was a law requiring guns to be checked when someone hit town. But the “Cowboys,” the Clanton faction had no reason to suspect the law existed, since it was “enforced in the breach instead of the promise.” So the “Gamblers,” the Earps and fellow gamblers, walked in on the Clanton’s at the OK Corral and things got smoky, that day in Tombstone.
Those are just three of literally hundreds of similar cases I could cite. While City Councils, often consisting of self appointed saloon keepers, wrote plenty of gun control laws, none called for gun confiscation, none called for limits on gun purchases, none called for State permission to buy a gun, and so far as contemporary history goes, n it appears none were ever seriously enforced.
