And no Federal or state guns laws of any kind! Only local ordinances against, for instance, carrying in town.
‘Two out of every 10 adults couldn’t read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.’
Things haven’t changed much in Detroit in the last 100 years.
There were various economic taxes on guns to restrict weapons[ie poor whites and blacks], and South Carolina banned handguns to ‘civilians’. That wasn’t overturned until later in the 60’s.