Nor have I felt the impulse to own a gun for personal protection, whether due to privilege or delusion or both. I've also figured, rightly or wrongly, that owning a gun — statistically speaking — would tend to make my family's home less safe, not more.
So when Henry Parro opened the state's first indoor shooting range in Waterbury in late June, I didn't pay it much mind.
Then one novel feature caught my attention: firearms for rent. I've rented cars and skis and stand-up paddleboards — even a snowmobile once — but I'd never heard of a place where you could walk in, plunk down a credit card and minutes later be firing an assault rifle.
That is, however, exactly what I found myself doing one morning last week.
-WiscoDave
