Was exploring, and I wanted to see the text for going in without any weapons equipped. I got through, and while exploring I bought something from the vending machine and thought, "gosh. what would happen if I equipped a weapon now?" went to equip the beatstick and immediately crashed. This also occurs if I disarm normally. I can equip it normally outside of New Texas.
Okay, and testing with the knife instead also causes the crash.
tl;dr: I think the interaction with weapons being "use" instead of "equip" is part of this.
