Imagine plopping a dark-red Texas county deep in the heart of California and forcing the Texans to abide by tough gun laws. They might learn to live with them. But they’re not going to like ’em.
Just ask the residents of Shasta County, the gun-buying capital of the Golden State. It’s a place where the public firing range on a sunny weekend day seems as crowded as a Bay Area Apple Store; the sheriff has doled out 12 times as many concealed-weapon permits as there are in Los Angeles County; and one of the county seat’s top elected officials owns one of the area’s biggest gun stores.
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