[BBell]

When I was in the Marine Corps is was the same way. Access to any type of munitions was very tightly regulated.

[ansel12]

Weapons don't have to come from small unit arms rooms; although during the Vietnam war, we were told that some weapons were being stolen from those, for the radical domestic political groups. Weapons can be, and are, shipped from war zones, and probably stolen from major storage facilities, if gang members and corrupt GIs can assist the paper work and smuggling operations, similar to corruption among the Border patrol. But that isn't really needed anyway, there are lots of old weapon stocks in America and crossing the border, grenades and weapons have always been around, during the 60s and 70s I assumed that some of the grenades were coming from private collections, along with weapons like the Thompson machine guns, or German automatics. Outlaw gangs would be a collection center for information on such materials, criminals would approach them to sell materials, and the members and the club itself would be the people who are privy to that type of street information from friends and associates and associations, not to mention the thefts by club members themselves and whatever efforts they may make in procuring such things. "" They hatched a plan to buy a boat, fill it with weapons and sail it all the way to Ireland. Over the following months they assembled a seven-ton arsenal costing some $500,000 – $1.12 million (£720,000) today – after extorting the money from drug-dealers. The hoard comprised 163 assault rifles, 71,000 rounds of ammunition, a ton of military explosives, and a dozen bullet­proof vests. To the astonishment of IRA commanders struggling to obtain weapons at home, they bought much of it from advertisements in the pages of Shotgun News. Other items were obtained from IRA sympathisers around the US – 25 mini machine-guns from a gang in Philadelphia""

[ansel12]

Weapons don't have to come from small unit arms rooms; although during the Vietnam war, we were told that some weapons were being stolen from those, for the radical domestic political groups.

Weapons can be, and are, shipped from war zones, and probably stolen from major storage facilities, if gang members and corrupt GIs can assist the paper work and smuggling operations, similar to corruption among the Border patrol.

But that isn't really needed anyway, there are lots of old weapon stocks in America and crossing the border, grenades and weapons have always been around, during the 60s and 70s I assumed that some of the grenades were coming from private collections, along with weapons like the Thompson machine guns, or German automatics.

Outlaw gangs would be a collection center for information on such materials, criminals would approach them to sell materials, and the members and the club itself would be the people who are privy to that type of street information from friends and associates and associations, not to mention the thefts by club members themselves and whatever efforts they may make in procuring such things.

"" They hatched a plan to buy a boat, fill it with weapons and sail it all the way to Ireland. Over the following months they assembled a seven-ton arsenal costing some $500,000 – $1.12 million (£720,000) today – after extorting the money from drug-dealers.
The hoard comprised 163 assault rifles, 71,000 rounds of ammunition, a ton of military explosives, and a dozen bullet­proof vests. To the astonishment of IRA commanders struggling to obtain weapons at home, they bought much of it from advertisements in the pages of Shotgun News. Other items were obtained from IRA sympathisers around the US – 25 mini machine-guns from a gang in Philadelphia""