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Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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National fetish is double-barrel menace

The current Texas Monthly is a special issue – a .38 Special, if you will. It’s about guns.

Page after page, see and hear about Texans and their rods. A cover shot and photo gallery show people and their beloved rifles, carbines and sidearms. See former Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson pose with his Colt .45 like one might a trophy walleye. If one could peer down that barrel, you’d bet one could see into the man’s soul.

Artist Matthew Diffee depicts what he saw and heard at a San Antonio gun show. One quote: “We sell freedom implements and other bunker supplies.”

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