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"These firearms, which often are significantly more dangerous than the kinds of firearms normal people can lawfully acquire, have never been used in a crime."
by rsync 2y ago
"These firearms, which often are significantly more dangerous than the kinds of firearms normal people can lawfully acquire, have never been used in a crime."
This is incorrect. NFA weapons have been used, albeit very rarely in crimes:
"Since 1934, there appear to have been at least two homicides committed with legally owned automatic weapons. One was a murder committed by a law enforcement officer (as opposed to a civilian). On September 15th, 1988, a 13-year veteran of the Dayton, Ohio police department, Patrolman Roger Waller, then 32, used his fully automatic MAC-11 .380 caliber submachine gun to kill a police informant, 52-year-old Lawrence Hileman." [1]
Ironically, it was a LEO who committed this crime.
And now, of course, it is possible that the UHC CEO was killed with a suppressed handgun which would add to the extremely small list of crimes committed with NFA weaponry.
[1] https://guncite.com/gun_control_gcfullau.html https://guncite.com/gun_control_gcfullau.html
EDIT: I see your reply to my sibling post - you were referring very specifically to post-sample MGs and I suspect you are correct.