Again, from the Official LDS History of the Church, Vol.6, Ch.34, p.617:
In the meantime Joseph, Hyrum, and Elder Taylor had their coats off. Joseph sprang to his coat for his six-shooter, Hyrum for his single barrel, Taylor for Markham's large hickory cane, and Dr. Richards for Taylor's cane.
Joseph with a six-shooter and Hyrum with a single barrel. That's two guns. From the LDS History of the Church.
I'm sorry you find things complicated. History and the facts often are. There was an entire war going on within the United States. There was an assassination attempt on a governor. A man had called out his personal militia and had declared martial law against the law of the United States and the law of the state in which was living, He had declared his own theocracy. You're aware, I assume, that Smith had not only had himself declared General of the Nauvoo Legion, but in both 1843 and 1844 had himself ordained as "Prophet, Priest, and King over the Council [of Fifty] and the world"?
Things are pretty complicated when a guy is having himself declared king of the world, is riding around in a general's uniform on a white horse, and is declaring martial law after starting his own illegal anti-bank (and fleeing the state when it failed) and ordering a printing press destroyed for printing a newspaper saying that he was committing polygamy, which publicly denied repeatedly, although he had at least 44 wives when he was denying it, wouldn't you say?
So again, based on the LDS History of the church, I disagree. Two guns were smuggled into the Carthage Jail. And they were smuggled in by an LDS member.
