51�Թ�

Back in 1981, Russia also reported sounds on Venus during the Soviet Venera 13 mission, which sounds like waves hissing on a beach.

At Texas ExpoTiro — Venera says he and his wife named the gun show for America’s “most gun-loving state” — the firearm fans see it differently.

“This is a triumph of liberty!” said retired military police chief Marcelo Venera, the executive director of the two-year-old expo, the largest gun show in the country and the first open to civilians.

The United States has a much more “developed” gun culture than Brazil, Venera said.

Venera is not concerned that legal gun sales will help arm the cartels.