Criminal use of full-auto weapons?

[Hkmp5sd]

Came across the tidbit while looking for something else...

Crime with Legally Owned Machine Guns

In 1995 there were over 240,000 machine guns registered with the BATF. (Zawitz, Marianne,Bureau of Justice Statistics, Guns Used in Crime [PDF].) About half are owned by civilians and the other half by police departments and other governmental agencies (Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, Walter de Gruyter, Inc., New York, 1997.)

Since 1934, only one legally owned machine gun has ever been used in crime, and that 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. Patrolman Waller pleaded guilty in 1990, and he and an accomplice were sentenced to 18 years in prison. The 1986 'ban' on sales of new machine guns does not apply to purchases by law enforcement or government agencies.

Guncite - Full Auto Weapons

 

[illuminatus99]

a good friend of mine was a county sherriff, he quit his job after having to shoot a teenager who opened up on his cruiser with a full-auto mac-10. he knows firearms very well so I don't think he was mistaking fast shooting for full auto, at any rate, he took the kid down with one shot and has never quite gotten over it.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

illuminatus99,

It is unfortunate your friend now has to live with taking a human life. But even this proves that it is not the legally owned and registered machineguns that LEO's are confronted with on the street.

It is amazing that with 240,000+ civilian owned machineguns in the United States, you NEVER hear of them being used against police, school children or spouses.

Civilian owned machineguns have a better record than items such as baseball bats or kitchen knives relative to being used in crimes of violence.

 

[Triad]

Hk, I think they have a better record than just about any object you could name. How many other items could be found that haven't been used in a crime?

 

[TexasVet]

In Denver on June 18, 1984, that nutcase bunch run by Robert Mathews called The Order killed a talkshow host, David Berg, in his driveway with a full auto .45 Mac 10. They also did some bank and armored car robberies with the same weapon before they got caught and/or charcoaled.