Sticks out like a sore trigger finger

You could be right. However, many of those guys, especially the ones "trained" in the last couple of decades, had practically no firearm safety thoughts. Can't say I personally saw it, and it's all anecdotal, but I heard plenty of first hand accounts of just how bad they were. Now if they survived past the terrorizing and killing civilians stage and made it through a few real encounters with people who could fight back then maybe.