An Anti-Gun Law. “Boys, throw up your hands, I want your guns.” The “scroll badge”Virgil Earp wore as Tombstone’s chief of police. When Earp became constable of Colton, California, in 1886, he had the badge reversed, which explains the T-bar pin on what was originally the badge’s face. This rare badge is part of a private collection. – All images courtesy Mark Lee Gardner Those words came from the mouth of Tombstone, Arizona, Chief of Police Vir…
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