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Low Slung Guns

by | Feb 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

A Hollywood Invention?
A popular misconception among some Old West re-enactors and wardrobe experts is that everyone wore their gun-belts high on their waists and that the low slung gun is an invention of Hollywood. It is true that most frontier fighters did not walk around wearing extravagant buscadero rigs (holsters that hang from the bottom of the belt). The most famous being the one worn by Commodore Perry Owens , date


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