Actually, it was Wyatt Earp in Tombstone AZ and Dodge City KS who made the cattle drivers surrender their weapons at the city limits.
“Actually, it was Wyatt Earp in Tombstone AZ and Dodge City KS who made the cattle drivers surrender their weapons at the city limits.”
I think you’re right. Cohen is getting gunsmoke mixed up with Tombstone. When the Earps were marshals they created an ordinance that no one would carry guns in the city limits except peace officers. However, they didn’t go around personally collecting the guns like the picture Cohen would like to paint of Marshall Dillon. People could simply turn their weapons into the hotel, bar or store where they were at and pick the guns up upon leaving. I believe that the ordinance stated you had so long of a time in town before you had to turn your weapon into an establishment.
However, there were a lot of towns with city ordinances like that in the west. Not just tombstone.