Even as the state grows and diversifies, it remains a redoubt of weapons, which many Texans see as a solution not the problem.
Each morning, men here strap guns inside suits, boots and swim trunks. Women slip them into bra and bellyband holsters that render them invisible. They stash firearms in purses, tool boxes, portable gun safes, back seats and glove compartments.Neighbors tuck guns into bedside tables, cars and trucks. They take guns fishing, to church, the park, the pool, the gym, the movies — even to protests at the state Capitol.
Unlike California and some other blue states, Texas has no state firearm sales registry, no required waiting period to buy a gun, no law guarding against the mentally ill or violent having weapons, no restrictions on the size of ammunition magazines and no background checks for guns purchased in a private sale.and say it’s too easy to obtain a gun, many Texans see guns as a solution to the problem, not the problem itself.
Texas’s guns are concentrated in conservative rural areas and suburban pockets like New Braunfels, with fewer guns per capita in more urban areas that trend Democratic like Austin, Dallas and Houston. But experts said it’s difficult to estimate how many guns there are overall in Texas, because the state requires less documentation of gun sales than others.
New Braunfels is the seat of Comal County, which then-President Donald Trump won with about 71 percent of the vote in 2020, and where yard signs proclaim “Biden is the wurst” and “We don’t call 911.” But not all gun owners are Republicans or Trump supporters. Some say they’re libertarian, moderate, nonvoters, or liberals who voted for President Biden or lean left on social issues.voted for Trump twice and hopes to vote for him again. His Sig Sauer 1911 .
Of course, Moravits said, slipping his Sig Sauer into a holster at the small of his back. “Don’t you remember Aurora?” He meant Aurora, Colo., where a gunman killed a dozen peopleMoravits grew up in Uvalde, about 115 miles southwest, and said he knew a teacher Kenneth Wells, 63, a retired pilot and Air Force veteran, supports some gun laws, such as requiring background checks for all purchases. But he opposes many others, including government gun registries, waiting periods for purchases, restrictions on AR-15s like the one he owns or red-flag laws designed to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns.
Couples and families often go shooting or gun shopping. Others invite newcomers to shoot at local Dietz Gun Shop & Range, family ranches or gun clubs, from modern ones like A Girl & A Gun, which Rose helps lead, to the 174-year-old New Braunfels Schuetzen Verein. Comal Pawn sells mostly handguns and hunting rifles, advertising guns on its sign, building and business cards.
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