More machine guns

Officers were later able to determine that the rifle was, in fact, an automatic weapon modified into a machine gun.

An automatic weapon IS a machine gun.

"The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons – anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun – can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." - Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center (VPC) - 1989

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