10 Sep 2023 10:32 am
We’ve gotten so used to everybody taking their guns to town we forget that in the Old West you couldn’t walk around armed:
Guns still an issue in modern-day Dodge City
NEWS
MAR 7, 2004 - 12:00AM
BILL DRAPER - ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Dodge City ? In the days when Wyatt Earp was making his name as a lawman in Dodge City, he banned guns north of the railroad tracks that ran through the frontier town, where most families lived.
Cowboys had to check their weapons at a gate or saloon, and the city imposed a $100 fine for anyone caught with a gun north of the tracks.
That was 1878, and the identification of Dodge City with those Wild West times now pulls tens of thousands of tourists to the town in far western Kansas every year.
Thanks to the Kansas Legislature, guns still are on people’s minds, at the police station, the Working Man’s Guns shop and the Bad Habit sports bar.
More than 125 years after guns were banned in the Dodge City of Earp’s day, state legislators are considering a bill that would allow Kansans to carry concealed weapons. Dodge City’s top lawman in 2004 dislikes the idea enough that he already has talked to other local officials about finding a way to ban concealed weapons in his town should the bill pass.
But at the Bad Habit, Wade Walters, a Hutchinson resident who stopped by for an afternoon drink, said he definitely would get a permit.
“Who’s going to mug someone if you think the S.O.B. has a Glock in his pocket?” Walters said. “Everybody I’ve talked to said it reduced street crime a great deal in other states where they allow it.”
Holdout state
Despite the shoot-em-up heritage of its early cowtowns, Kansas would be among the last states in the nation to adopt a concealed carry law should the bill pass.
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https://youtu.be/CoxQWFtqaYM?si=9kIxVROfQBFbHn9j
Guns still an issue in modern-day Dodge City
NEWS
MAR 7, 2004 - 12:00AM
BILL DRAPER - ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Dodge City ? In the days when Wyatt Earp was making his name as a lawman in Dodge City, he banned guns north of the railroad tracks that ran through the frontier town, where most families lived.
Cowboys had to check their weapons at a gate or saloon, and the city imposed a $100 fine for anyone caught with a gun north of the tracks.
That was 1878, and the identification of Dodge City with those Wild West times now pulls tens of thousands of tourists to the town in far western Kansas every year.
Thanks to the Kansas Legislature, guns still are on people’s minds, at the police station, the Working Man’s Guns shop and the Bad Habit sports bar.
More than 125 years after guns were banned in the Dodge City of Earp’s day, state legislators are considering a bill that would allow Kansans to carry concealed weapons. Dodge City’s top lawman in 2004 dislikes the idea enough that he already has talked to other local officials about finding a way to ban concealed weapons in his town should the bill pass.
But at the Bad Habit, Wade Walters, a Hutchinson resident who stopped by for an afternoon drink, said he definitely would get a permit.
“Who’s going to mug someone if you think the S.O.B. has a Glock in his pocket?” Walters said. “Everybody I’ve talked to said it reduced street crime a great deal in other states where they allow it.”
Holdout state
Despite the shoot-em-up heritage of its early cowtowns, Kansas would be among the last states in the nation to adopt a concealed carry law should the bill pass.
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https://youtu.be/CoxQWFtqaYM?si=9kIxVROfQBFbHn9j