***Dodge City, Kansas, before gun confiscation wasn’t as violent as today’s Chicago with gun control.***
True. However, such guns laws were used only against the cowboys coming in with the trail herds, not the local citizens.
In Wichita, which had a no guns policy, Hurricane Bill and his cowboys came armed into town and were met late one night by the local deputy. Someone rang the alarm bell, and suddenly about fifty ARMED WICHITA CITIZENS appeared to support the deputy.
Hurricane Bill and his men immediately retreated into the darkness, and it was said many guns were later found discarded in weed patches around town.
They should have just put the revolvers into their bedroll or saddlebag. Rifles may not have been an issue back then.