Used to work with a guy that has some type of family connection to Springfield. According to him, Chicago and Springfield are where all the anti-gun noise comes from. Apparently the rest of the state is actually very pro-gun, but those two cities have all the pull in the state. See:
And S&W isn’t much different. Their plant is in Western Mass, far away from Boston and Menino. Western Mass, outside of the college towns, has a bit of a conservative streak. Again, the state is run by the big cities.
But it doesn’t really matter. If the cesspits of liberalism in a given state are populous enough that they form an electoral majority, they pass laws and still expect you to obey them even though you live or work in a sane part of the state. How is that a winning proposition?