bassjam
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...and not everyone lived in the city, either.
No, but aside from trappers and the natives I doubt many people relied primarily on hunting to feed themselves. Even the frontiersman living past the edge of "society" were almost always farmers who raised crops and had some livestock to feed themselves and their families who still made regular trips to whatever the nearest town was for supplies. A hunter/gather life takes up a lot of time.
Edit: Realistically a firearm was needed on the frontier for the same reasons a firearm is needed today: protection from 2 legged critters. Run-ins with the Indians was common, and after that good ol' fashioned bandits were a concern.
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