[marktwain]

Modern versions of Sherlock Holmes downplay or ignore the easy availability of firearms in the era in which he was created.

Rudyard Kipling refers to the ability of schoolboys to buy and shoot cheap revolvers in his works, particularly in “Stalky & Co.”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalky_%26_Co.

[MUDDOG]

I used to wonder about that. People carried revolvers without a second thought in the Sherlock Holmes stories.