My analysis finds that gun culture in the U.S. derives largely from its frontier past and the mythology of the “Wild West,” which romanticizes guns, outlaws, rugged individualism and the inevitability of gun violence.
By 1878, this theme was so successful that Colt’s New York City distributor recommended the company market the .
44-40 caliber version of its Model 1873 single-action revolver as the “Frontier Six Shooter” toColt’s Frontier Six Shooter was marketed to take advantage of people’s romantic ideas of the Wild West.Gun ownership was commonplace in the post-Civil War Old West, but actual gunfights were rare. One reason was that, contrary to the mythology,
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