a gun was a (rather expensive) tool (Reply #3)

In the discussion thread: In the Old West, civilians were instructed by signs to turn their guns in at the Sheriff's office. [View all]

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Fri Oct 29, 2021, 10:49 PM

stopdiggin (8,256 posts)

3. a gun was a (rather expensive) tool

that was nonetheless desirable and therefore fairly common among the frontier and agrarian population. A sidearm (pistol) was not. Many of the rural west, including settlers, frontiersman (and cowboys), neither had, nor saw the need for, such an item.

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In the Old West, civilians were instructed by signs to turn their guns in at the Sheriff's office. [View all]	TeamProg	Oct 2021	OP
This message was self-deleted by its author	Chin music	Oct 2021	#1
I believe that the same policy was implemented in Dodge City, KS, too.	Vogon_Glory	Oct 2021	#2
a gun was a (rather expensive) tool	stopdiggin	Oct 2021	#3
This message was self-deleted by its author	Chin music	Oct 2021	#4

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