Not entirely. Once the home workshops turning out semi-auto handguns were outlawed, they turned to other products. Next step: grenades and light antitank rocket launchers.
Posted on 10/06/2021 8:24:44 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
There have been 78 instances of criminals firing fully automatic weapons in Minneapolis so far this year, according to ShotSpotter data.
A fully automatic weapon is one which fires more than a single bullet per press of the trigger. They are also known as “machine guns,” have been tightly regulated since 1934 and banned since 1986. Today, collectors are allowed to own machine guns produced before 1986, but high price tags and exceedingly strict regulations make them next to impossible for the average person to acquire. Fully automatic rifles in poor condition cost about $20,000 — higher-quality rifles routinely sell for over $50,000.
The amount of fully automatic gunfire in the streets of Minneapolis is shockingly high given America’s tight control of these weapons.
Since the outset of this year, the Minneapolis Public Health and Safety Committee reports that 935 rounds have been fired as part of fully automatic strings based on data collected by the city’s ShotSpotter. If even one of these bullets were to find its mark, it would represent a substantial change to American gun crime statistics.
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Sure - that is possibly true for every major metro area in the country, every single year. That does not automatically (no pun intended) require that 100% of the acoustic data was generated by "semiautomatic weapons... that have been modified with autosears making them fully automatic." That would be equivalent to claiming (as some have done) that the recovery of some illegal US-manufactured "crime guns" in Mexico means all "crime guns" in Mexico are smuggled in from the US...
I have seen the directions for those. They look unpleasant to fire.
And you would have to wonder about safety, too!
;^)
Could it be binary triggers installed on rifles?
Yup
In the Charlotte, NC, drive-by in September that killed a 3-year-old boy, it sounded like the first shooter ripped off a full magazine on rock-and-roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZyXimXa8Qk
If they are firing that many rounds and not hitting anybody, they aren’t trying.
Hints at an fbi planned shooting. Put nothing past the fbi/DNC gestapo.
Not entirely. Once the home workshops turning out semi-auto handguns were outlawed, they turned to other products. Next step: grenades and light antitank rocket launchers.
It's not that simple. There's headspace and timing issues that need to be solved. It's probably easier to smuggle a full-auto into the country, or completely build one from scratch, than it is to convert a commercially-available semi-auto to full auto with drop-in parts.
The MkII Sten is a little easier because it uses a receiver of simple tubing, basically a pipe. The later MkIII Sten and Grease Gun use stamped receivers requiring a stamping press and welding equipment to join them.
But there are a number of other designs using a tubing receiver that take only a few hours to throw together, the Vietnam favorite Karl Gustav M45b *Swedish K* and the Czech M24/M24/M26 *Czech Uzi* series among them. Get one for a sample and a couple dozen copies are easy, as numerous biker gangs have found out.
https://sofrep.com/specialoperations/swedish-k-unsung-friend-american-special-forces-vietnam/ 
I like that.
It looks like the hard part would be the magazines.
I'd worry a lot more about the 17,700+ Stinger and other ground-to-air missiles left behind. One smuggled missle and launcher and a skilled/trained user, one airliner down.
Fortunately, their battery life is finite.
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