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<\/a><\/p>\nWith the Nazi threat looming, LIFE <\/i>reported, Europe was shipping gold to the US for safekeeping, and the largest shipment yet \u2013 sixty million in 1939 dollars \u2013 was being guarded by a fella with a Colt double action revolver and a Thompson submachinegun.<\/p>\n
The main theme of that issue was a focus on Texas. A well-worn Westerner was depicted sitting on a porch with his back to the camera, a Colt 1911 .45 auto prominently holstered on his hip. The caption read, \u201cTexans still tote loaded guns.\u201d\u00a0 (Oddly enough, that open carry in public would not be legal today in the Lone Star State, though unlike the fellow in the picture today\u2019s Texan can get a permit to carry a concealed handgun.)<\/p>\n
So far, so good. But then, in a segment titled \u201cTexans Are Lusty,\u201d there were the three pictures below.<\/p>\n
Making a shot with a revolver bent over, upside down? Well\u2026been there, done that.<\/p>\n
Three of you grabbing your friend and one of you trying to pull his presumably loaded six-shooter out of his holster, while there\u2019s a whisky bottle in his hip pocket? Gee, I guess the mainstream media was already a little anti-gun when they staged that <\/i>one for the camera 74 years ago.<\/p>\n The piece de resistance <\/i>of the sequence, though, is one Stetsoned Texan shooting a cigar out of another\u2019s mouth with a six-inch barrel target revolver.\u00a0 To which I can only say\u2026well, nothing that will pass the family-friendly filter of Backwoods Home.<\/i><\/p>\n That trick was supposedly a staple of Annie Oakley\u2019s act. It was said that on one of her European tours prior to World War I, she blew the tip of a tube of tobacco out of the mouth of Kaiser Wilhelm.\u00a0 After the war began, the legend says, Ms. Oakley invited the Kaiser to give that one more go.\u00a0 He apparently declined, perhaps realizing the feisty American hero might do it this time with him facing her.<\/p>\n Shooting a cigar or cigarette out of someone\u2019s mouth with live ammunition? \u00a0\u201cOnly in Texas,\u201d the effete anti-gunners of the time might have sniffed. \u201cThat certainly wouldn\u2019t happen in a civilized <\/i>place, such as Los Angeles!\u201d<\/p>\n Au contraire, <\/i>Muffy.\u00a0 The LIFE <\/i>photos below post-dated by three years the film which follows in this blog, recently discovered from the archives of the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department.\u00a0 Watch it, and revel in the fact that firearms safety is better in America in the 21st<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n Video here:<\/p>\n In one of my favorite used bookstores, I recently picked up a copy of LIFE magazine from April 10 of 1939. Amidst the ads for big ol\u2019 Hudson sedans for $695 new off the showroom floor and Dodge Luxury Liners at $756 for a coupe and $815 for a sedan, firearms were distinctly in evidence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nLASD SHOOTING DEMONSTRATION<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"