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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

  An instant background check didn't stop this assassin, but I've read that a substantial number of people don't return to pick up a handgun after a five day waiting period. In Arizona there are almost no gun laws. Instant background checks, not the extensive ones, no safety training requirements, no restriction on the size of magazines, (the Glock 19 the assassin used reportedly had a 19 round clip and could have been a 33 round one) not even a prohibition of carrying a concealed weapon in a bar, government buildings or inside the state Capitol.

In this case however, not having a training requirement may have worked out to the peoples advantage as he appears to have botched the loading of the second large clip of ammunition. How many more would he have killed? He had several clips.

My humble opinion is buying a lethal weapon should be just a little harder than buying a six pack of beer. But, I don't expect Arizona to budge, I don't expect the gun laws there or anywhere else to get better, and I think this is going to happen again. How about this, restrict handguns to old west style revolvers with holsters mandatory, and no smokeless powder. Tombstone style.

No wait, Tombstone had a city wide ban on all deadly weapons!! 
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November 1881

Ordinance No. 9:    "To Provide against Carrying of Deadly Weapons" (effective April 19, 1881).

Section 1. "It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to carry deadly weapons, concealed or otherwise within the limits of the City of Tombstone.
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The gunfight at the O.K. Corral happened when the Earps and Doc Holiday came to enforce the above law.

This is a case of reality being stranger than fiction. 
 

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