“If they do, an AR, a Iszmash shotgun (Spellius Wrongus) and a 10mm Glock are particularly odd choices to own.”
You certainly have a different view of the appropriate level of personal armament than we in TN do, at least before that terrible epidemic of Tragic
Boating Accidents on TVA lakes. On AR or AK variant plus at least one semi-auto handgun, 9 mm. & up seemed to be pretty common around these parts.
Yeah, this is definitely a point of contention in the NE. Connecticut is a unique gun culture and legal environment. Most of the carry pieces here are focused more on concealment than on effective ballistics. We don’t have a big wild animal problem (Unless you are talking about the wild cavemen that inhabit the coastal cities) and we don’t have the car drives that take us though miles of wilderness (Where a break-down can be a survival situation). Add to that the liberal culture and you may see where I’m going.
CT hasn’t always been a “shall issue” state, and the police aren’t very friendly to gun owners. Added to that, a rifle is still under many of the Clinton bans throughout the state.