Yes, some towns which often had cowboys visit, would have a "leave your gun at the Sheriffs office’. However, outside of those towns there were no rules.
The laws of Tombstone at the time required visitors, upon entering town to disarm, either at a hotel or a lawman’s office. (Residents of many famed cattle towns, such as Dodge City, Abilene, and Deadwood, had similar restrictions.)
Cowboys, at the end of the trail when they got paid off would get drunk and “hurrah” the town, shooting their guns in the air- and sometimes people would get shot. Thus, they were disarmed on the way in.
Not only does your cite not say that. It provides examples of exactly the opposite:
The practice was started in Southern states, which were among the first to enact laws against concealed carry of guns and knives, in the early 1800s. While a few citizens challenged the bans in court, most lost. Winkler, in his book Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, points to an 1840 Alabama court that, in upholding its state ban, ruled it was a state’s right to regulate where and how a citizen could carry, and that the state constitution’s allowance of personal firearms “is not to bear arms upon all occasions and in all places.”
Louisiana, too, upheld an early ban on concealed carry firearms. When a Kentucky court reversed its ban, the state constitution was amended to specify the Kentucky general assembly was within its rights to, in the future, regulate or prohibit concealed carry.
But in 1995 they (a) would have not yet been conditioned to believe that every knock on the door is an attack by roving zombie punk thug hordes and (b) trophy guns spent the prior 40 years in a box somewhere in the attic or mounted above the mantelpiece and would be of dubious effectiveness. The Army must have put more usable WW2 issue weapons out in the street in the 1960s when they surplussed out the f—load of M1 carbines they still had in the warehouse. Plus (c) as actual veterans who managed to readapt and live long lives in peace, they mostly did not come back looking to wage war at home (they read the handout carnivorousplant’s dad was issued and took it seriously).
Sure you can. You can’t post them so we can see them directly here inside the thread, but just post the whole link inline with your words and we’ll have to click it to watch it.
Can you? Like, physically? Well… probably. Should you? Ehhhh… I don’t like to advocate violence.
But, perhaps more to your intended point, would you get away with it? Doubtful. Republicans aren’t principled enough to acquit you, and Democrats, even those sympathetic to your cause, are probably too principle to acquit you. The fascists really do have us in a bind. The second amendment equivalent to the paradox of tolerance, I suppose.
Seems to me just driving across the Florida state line should fill a man with fear what with everyone packing now. Probably smart to play it safe and just blaze your way through the state right down to the keys and take your chances with the courts.