Why? Keep Austin weird, and let their gun dollars flow to more welcoming locales.
Yet if you pass a law to improve the standards at an abortion clinic, and it ends up causing somebody to have to drive an extra 30 miles to get an abortion, the left will kick and scream and sue with everything they've got. Abortion clinics must be on every corner, but heaven forbid the county rent otherwise idle space to a gun show a handful of times a year.