While we were at the General Land Office interviewing Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson for a different story, we noticed the retired Marine keeps a lot of guns and other trinkets in his office. He graciously offered to give us a tour, a la MTV’s “Cribs”. He calls it junk. We thought it was pretty cool stuff.

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Elise Hu was a political reporter at the Tribune, focusing on multimedia projects, from 2009 to 2011. She previously worked as the state political reporter for Austin's ABC affiliate, KVUE-TV, from 2006...