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In the 1800s did most Americans carry guns?

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Generally speaking, no. And not because they didn't feel the need or didn't want to. There were 3 major reasons: Guns were super expensive: back then, buying a gun was like buying a car. Manufacturing was done by hand and guns took a lot of time to mill and assemble. read more

Later in the 1800s, as the frontier faded, travel became a little safer, more folks lived in the city and fewer depended on hunting for food, and guns became cheaper and were produced in greater quantities, it may well have been that more Americans owned guns, but fewer carried them. read more

What they most cared about was the luxury of it all, of having the servants, the good food, the right clothes, the right gun. And the right gun, as every magazine and every advisor states, was an English gun. They were the best made, the most beautiful and the most accurate. This subculture lasted until the Civil War. read more

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