In my part of SW Missouri, which I'll grant is in part of the cultural South, in the late '40s my father and his peers would store their long guns in their high school lockers during the day. The late Supreme Court Justice Scalia, three years younger, carried his .22 target rifle on the NYC subways to and from practice.
One reason I've elsewhere referred to what's happening with skyrocketing legal concealed carry as a renorming, we're just returning to a not all that old normal.
One reason I've elsewhere referred to what's happening with skyrocketing legal concealed carry as a renorming, we're just returning to a not all that old normal.