Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: As the pendulum swings, we see a glimpse of sanity on the horizon [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)and they were LE.
If you open carried in my county back then, even the NRA life members would assume you were a New Yorker or from Mass. (stupid easterners don't know the indian wars ended) Now the county where John Perry Barlow grew up, not so much because it was usually ranchers or hunters.
It was banned in Florida because migrant African American workers often open carried. Nothing scared the shit out of Jim Crow types more than a black guy with a gun (other than maybe a white liberal with gun). It was selectively enforced. In 1941 the state supreme court overturned a conviction because the carrier was white.
Watson v. Stone, 4 So.2d 700, 703 (Fla. 1941)
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3857/
In case you never heard of it, In These Times makes The Nation look like NRO.