When Did Gun Control Start In America?

gunsnfreedom.com ^ | 6/17/2015 | Tim

[rktman]

Hmmm. Could one postulate that even earlier than that when some western towns required cow pokes to turn in their guns when they came to town after a long cattle drive? Booze and guns still don't mix. Early gun free zones. Well, except for the outlaws who chose not to turn their guns in.

[DuncanWaring]

I thought it started a half-century earlier in the South to protect the Klan from their victims.

[edpc]

1880. Little Bill confiscated English Bob’s Peacemaker and .32 backup.

[circlecity]

"Hmmm. Could one postulate that even earlier than that when some western towns required cow pokes to turn in their guns when they came to town after a long cattle drive? Booze and guns still don't mix. Early gun free zones. Well, except for the outlaws who chose not to turn their guns in."

AS I recall, the Earp's alleged reason for confronting the Clantons and Lowreys next to the OK Corral was for carrying weapons in town.

[Lazamataz]

Gun control started with liberal Stegosaurus’ in the Late Jurassic, 152 million years ago.

[rktman]

So, the Clantons and Lowreys were 2nd amendment supporters and the Earp’s were old timey bloombergs?

[Reno89519]

On the surface you’d think it is commonsense that guns and alcohol do not mix. Yet, just two weeks ago here in Reno was a small gun show at a casino wherein the admission fee included two free beers and plenty more nearby. Maybe the gun deals work better with alcohol.

[dp0622]

you made me laugh out loud in the grand jury room lol. Now i’m going to get arrested. good thing we’re on break

[rktman]

WHAT? I musta missed that gun show. GSR? Where the heck was I? :>}

[EagleUSA]

Many inputs are probably considerable on this topic. Another is maybe when Tammany Hall was founded. The paranoid criminal politician arose in a more organized manner — and became a target. Boss Tweed still walks amongst us in various forms.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

"Tim" wasn't much of a researcher - gun control hit its stride in the 1800's - Tammany Hall in NY wanted the public defenseless against their power players; in the aftermath of the US civil war democrats wanted freed blacks defenseless against them and their power. Other local and regional examples can be found.

 

 

[thorvaldr]

Our current situation, the Democrats fighting to take guns away from everyone but especially poor black people and the NRA trying to slow them down has been in existence since just after the civil war.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Black Codes following the Civil War to disarm former slaves, although there were similar codes back to 1751 in Lousiana (still French), and the early 1800’s elsewhere in the colonies.

Look up “The Racist Roots of Gun Control”

[A Navy Vet]

Don't know about the East, but out on the Western frontier there came a time to stop the outlaws from shooting up towns and people.

Think the Earps, Hitchcock, Bat Masterson, and other lawmen. Before them, it was a free-for-all. Of course that doesn't apply to this era. Ask me why.

[mountainlion]

Don’t you think that the British taking away colonists arms had SOMETHING to do with the Revolution and the second Amendment?

[Reno89519]

Baldini’s Sports Casino.

[A Navy Vet]

"1880. Little Bill confiscated English Bob’s Peacemaker and .32 backup."

Really? The Unforgiven is a true story or did you forget the sarcasm tag?

[rktman]

LOL! WOW. I didn’t see any advertising for a show at Baldini’s. Guess I gotta pay more attention. :>} I coulda sold my beer tickets for some extra ammo.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Yes, those gun control laws of the 1930s really stopped gangsters from killing each other, didn’t it? /MAXIMUM SARCASM

Gun control didn’t stop murder and violence then and it doesn’t stop murder and violence now. Prohibitions do not work. People will always get around bans and restrictions. It just creates a criminal element seeking to profit off the new prohibition.

IT NEVER WORKS.

What stopped the gangster’s violence. Oh yeah. Legalizing alcohol stopped it overnight.

[bert]

Virgil Cole and Wyatt Earp knew instinctively that forbidding carrying guns within the city limits would, and did solve a lot of law enforcement problems

I have never seen a movie bar room drunk espouse the doctrine that the marshal must present a warrant drawn after a second amendment analysis by a judge.