I don't see why every weapon in the game is available to you when you first create your character? I haven't actually played Tactics multiplayer before but I predict everyone is going to equip their squad with the best weaponry and totally own everyone who wants to use a less powered weapon (like me lol). I just want to know if that happens or if I have been playing too much Call of Duty

I seem to recall their being a points system, and each item had a points value. So while you might have the best gun, you're going to have the weakest armor since you spent all your points on one thing.