When did people stop carrying guns on their hips?
It pretty much started with local ordinances that banned carrying firearms, or having to check your firearms within city/town limits. Basically to reduce the threat to townsfolk when the “cowboys” would come in off the trail for a good drunk. As laws progressed, and more territories became states, with established police forces, the regular carrying of guns was usually banned or phased out. In part due to laws and also due to a lesser need by the general population to act as the policing force. In pre-revolution America, citizens did often carry weapons. Not usually a handgun, or on their hips, but in some instances it was required. One state (might even be MD) still has a very old law on the books that requires any man who escorts a woman on a walk through the woods on a sunday, to carry a firearm over his right shoulder. Yes, it is still legal in Arizona, it is still legal to carry openly in West Virgina too. A town in North Carolina (or is it South) requires every homeowner to have
