Just curious. What do RKBA gun enthusiasts say about Wyatt Earp and his gun ban in tombstone?

[gejohnston]

14. He didn't, it was the city council

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His job was to enforce it. Towns in the "old west" did have democratic institutions. That's another thing the old movies and the myth gets wrong.
The city council's? Rationale and reason can be two different things. Why did he enforce it? It was his job.
I don't know the town's history well enough to know why the town did. Most likely labor strife. Anti Chinese sentiment in mining and railroad towns were just as much about labor as it was race. Maybe more so, since it was directed at the Chinese but not other minority groups such as Japanese or African Americans (but then, most of the African Americans "the old west" were cowboys, and they had guns). My hometown is probably the worst example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre
I do know that Earp didn't become the resident deputy until after the law was passed. It is possible that he voted for the guy that introduced the law.
It was amended in 1977 and still on the books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Earp#Becomes_Deputy_Sheriff

Dodge City had a similar ordnance, but it only it applied to one neighborhood.