(December 3, 2021 at 12:54 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Yeah.. No gun registrations - no NICS checks. Open carry was common..ownership of military grade weapons was legal. Manufacturing guns and ammo was unregulated. Buying explosives was unregulated.
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But because he saw they made you check your guns in a movie about Dodge City - gun laws were much more restrictive then.
Did a bit of reading since my last post. It turns out that quite a few Old West towns did indeed restrict weapons in the city limits (knives as well as guns), but this was almost always selectively enforced. It wasn’t so much a public safety issue as it was a way to disarm political and business rivals. Such restrictions tended to disappear whenever the office of sheriff went to the opposition party. But statewide or territory wide or federal gun regulations? None to speak of.
37 continues his unbroken streak of not knowing what the fuck he’s talking about.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
