Earliest American gun control/safety laws?

[Mr.Kobayashi]

I know you’re all sick of threads about guns, but I want to look back - were there any equivalents to today’s laws in aid of gun safety (like automatic weapons bans and what not) back in the day, and how early on did these pass?

The nearest you could get to semi-automatics, let alone automatics, in the infancy of the republic was the old New York reload, just grab a new weapon - would authorities stop you if you carried as many loaded pistols strapped to your person as possible? What about the heavier stuff - if you wanted to stick 24-pounder cannons in your house would the law interfere?

I’m assuming that if you were a free black the law would find some way of keeping firearms out of your hands.

[md2000]

“Check your six-shooters with the barkeep”?

Did some towns have a “no guns inside city limits” or was that a western movie conceit?

[Little_Nemo]

Weren’t there old laws that prohibited selling firearms to Native Americans?

[jasg]

@md2000

“Check your six-shooters with the barkeep”?

Did some towns have a “no guns inside city limits” or was that a western movie conceit?

I am sure it is not the earliest, but I was surprised to discover that gun control was a major cause of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corrall.

@wiki

To reduce crime in Tombstone, on April 19, 1881, the Tombstone’s city council passed ordinance #9 prohibiting anyone from carrying a deadly weapon. Anyone entering town was required to deposit their weapons at a livery or saloon soon after entering town. The ordinance led directly to the confrontation that resulted in the shoot out.