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Arizona Firearms History: From Territorial Law to Constitutional Carry

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:23.199Z

Spent some time this week going down a rabbit hole on Arizona firearms history — turns out there's a lot more going on there than the Tombstone mythology most people carry around. What the O.K. Corral story actually illustrates is more nuanced than either gun-rights advocates or gun-control advocates typically acknowledge. UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, in his book Gunfight, notes that Tombstone's ordinance was stricter than anything currently on Arizona's books — you cannot be required to...

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Arizona Firearms History: From Territorial Law to Constitutional Carry

Arizona sits at a crossroads of American firearms history that doesn't fit neatly into either the "Wild West mythology" or the modern gun-rights narrative — it's more complicated and more interesting than either. The same territory that gave us Tombs

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