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Saw a police shooting video recently where the suspect barricaded in a car with a hostage. Suspect returned fire (full auto).
After the police shot him and freed the hostage, they went to clear the gun. It was a full auto HK UMP, which civilians in the US cannot legally buy or possess in any practical scenario (yes I am aware a SOT could have one for LE demonstration but that's relatively rare and not what this was).
In other words full auto MGs are being used by criminals who have cartel connections. The cartels get them from Mexican or South/Central American police and military who either are corrupted and resell the weapons, or are overt criminals themselves.
US has created a clown world where middle class software engineers are being hassled by the feds over having a braced AR pistol. ATF has jailed people over a drawing on a flat piece of metal. Meanwhile criminal element are running around with full auto UMPs and illegally modified Glocks. It is the exact opposite of what should be happening.
In other words... you had to make it clear that the weapon wasn't legal, and even then you had to admit that there were some scenarios where it might be legal.
Here's how that sentence would go in a sane countr:
"It was a gun, and not a hunting gun, so obviously illegal."
When civilians can legally own a whole variety of guns, including guns that look nearly identical to the ones that are illegal, it's a lot easier for people to get their hands on the illegal guns. England doesn't have this problem. Japan doesn't have this problem. Even Canada doesn't have this problem. It's not that there aren't criminals in those places, it's that gun control laws work.
You're not making the point you think you are. That fringe scenario I described has no statistical significance in terms of crime. It is a special subset of dealers that demonstrate weapons to police customers. I guarantee you England, Canada and Japan also have some process for this, and it doesn't impact their crime rates in any meaningful way either.