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Gun control in the Wild West

Posted by David Hardy · 20 July 2020 12:40 PM

An article by my friend Dan Gifford. I have somewhere in my files records of Wyatt Earp and Johnny Behan being hailed into court in Prescott, Arizona Territory, for assault with a deadly weapon. They were separate incidents, not a fight between them.

7 Comments | Leave a comment

Michael Murray | July 21, 2020 9:13 PM | Reply

My favorite quote attributed to Mr. Earp-
"Speed is fine, but accuracy is final."

oldguy | July 22, 2020 3:25 PM | Reply

There was a movie with I think Clint Eastwood as a bounty hunter. There is a guy is has told that he is going to take in. The guy jumps on a horse and starts to ride away, Clint shoots the horse and the guy falls to the street and gets up shooting wildly. But he is too far away and is all over the place to hit Clint.
Clint takes a different gun out and calmly supports it and shoots the guy. Accuracy counts

Dan | July 23, 2020 3:09 AM | Reply

Wasn't Eastwood.....was Lee Van Cleef.

CDR_D replied to comment from Dan | July 23, 2020 8:39 AM | Reply

Yep. Colonel Douglas Mortimer, the finest shot in the Carolinas.

oldguy replied to comment from Dan | July 23, 2020 9:34 AM | Reply

Thanks - brain is old :)

oldguy | July 25, 2020 6:55 AM | Reply

so the sullivan law in NY was basically an extension of this concept. Only the favored can get permits and carry while the opposition and the public get zilch

wrangler5 | July 27, 2020 6:57 PM | Reply

I've read that Sullivan was a state senator and a NY City mob boss, who got the permit law passed to protect his guys from having to face armed victims when they were engaged in robbery and other mayhem. His hoodlums didn't actually get permits to carry, but their victims certainly got disarmed.

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