[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.

[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.

[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.

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"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.

 

 

[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?

[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.

[SpaceBar]

Fascism was all the rage in the 1930’s.

[pierrem15]

I believe the invention of the Derringer led to the first concealed weapon laws: in Alabama in the 1840’s, I think.

[cripplecreek]

1920s here in Michigan.

A black man (Ossian Sweet) defended himself against a Detroit mob trying to drive him out of “their” neighborhood. He killed one and was acquitted of murder.

It was only a matter of weeks before legislation started showing up in Lansing calling for standards of who can own a gun. It resulted in the first gun boards which pretty much always denied blacks.

[Johnny Navarone]

Weren’t there a number of gun control laws passed in the Reconstruction era in the South which aimed to disarm blacks? Can’t think of anything before that, offhand.

[Mark17]

I thought gun control started with the British. I thought they tried to disarm the colonists, and the colonists said molon labe.

[yarddog]

The reason for gun control in the old West was the same as for now.

The idea was for those in power and with money to stay that way.

The cowboys came into town and the town wanted the cowboys money. The would get it by fair or foul means. Now if the cowboys were all armed, it made it much more difficult to steal from them or cheat them.

[exnavy]

I would say with the Earp brothers in the 1870’s. The reason for the “shoot out at OK Corral” was the failure of the loses to surrender firearms upon entering town.

[TigersEye]

The Racist Roots of Gun Control.

SYG, Castle Doctrine and other self defense laws have roots in the push back against Jim Crow laws. Yet today's “black leaders” line up to help the Progressives destroy all of the progress made to secure black families.

The Castle Doctrine & Stand Your Ground – The Trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet TheConservativeTreeHouse

No Guns for Negroes Part One (video 10:00)

No Guns for Negroes Part Two (video 9:45)

Equal Gun Rights (video 0:52)

The Never Again Campaign (video 0:30)

The NRA Was Created To Protect Freed Slaves From The KKK & The Democratic Party, and Everyone Else From a Tyrannical Government LiveLeaks video 3:08