As a point of order, there are differences between Court Guns, Wedding Guns, and BBQ guns.
Now, the quintessential barbecue gun is based on folks on large rural holdings celebrating a social situation. If you have, say, 50-100 Sections, and you want to celebrate something, you are like to invite the neighbors, who are likely to have similarly-sized properties. These are folk who might have a mile or two drive to get to the nearest public road, and then a 30-40 drive to the neighbor's front door. They are like to go about ready to cope with non-cash wildlife.
So, it's not a statement of a need to e defended or protected; it's more a case of people showing up the way they dress every day, equipped as they would be every day.
Now, a person might, as it's a social celebration, opt for a "prettier" version of the EDC, if they have one. Same way they might wear a nicer pair of boots.
For scope, these event, back in the day, would be 30-40 or more people, and a whole steer (as in ±400# of beef) being roasted up.
View attachment 1038949That's a small place, only 5-6 Sections just south of Lake Somerville, Texas. They know how to host a party, too.
Now, if a person is holding a wedding, and doing so "on the ranch" rather than "in town" at 40-50-100 miles away, the social situation will be similar, but the attire will be more formal for the wedding party. Which might limit the selection of firearms present (as in more pocket pistols and the like). But, you are still parking over by the tractor shed, or in a scalped bit of pasture where a pavilion is set up. You might want to watch your step and have one's wits about them for snakes, coyotes and the like, displaced by all the fuss.
Now, a Court Gun is its own thing. A person in rural LE will have bumped into the Trusty over at the County Jail who hand-tools leather as an avocation. And, such a "pretty" bit of leather is either inappropriate or not regulation for patrol, but suits just fine for plain-clothes attendance in Court. Often a Court Gun is just an un-embellished Service sidearm, just riding in a nicer rig than the EDC. Every so often it was an engraved bit of work reserved to the purpose, but "plain Jane" is/was more common
Colt NM IN 38 Super and Ruger 45 Colt set up for Cowboy Fast Draw with SBH hardware. What I could find pictures of that were handy. Sadly I dont own look at only firearms.
That's a small place, only 5-6 Sections just south of Lake Somerville, Texas. They know how to host a party, too.
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