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Q: Where do Texas towns get those cannons for their courthouse squares? Eldorado, in West Texas, has a howitzer sitting in its square. Saint Jo, in North Texas, has a ­bigger cannon—an antiaircraft gun—by the center of town. And a tank! The smaller the town the more firepower? Sue Hui, PlanoA: There are few places across the United States that are as wacky about weaponry as Texas. We are, after all, the state that boasts, for better or—as too many news stories in recent years have reminded us—for worse, the largest number of gun owners. And though our ranking is actually pretty middling on a per capita basis, there’s no doubt that guns are a major part of Texas’s self-image. But given that hunting is so…

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