Phil Boettge, Just facts about firearms and gun control.
Updated Jan 23 · Upvoted by John Edgar, lives in The United States of America (1969-present)
Re: “How many of the 600,000+ legally owned fully automatic firearms in the United States have been used in crimes during this century?”
First, there are nowhere near “600,000 automatic firearms” legally owned by private citizens in the United States. The number is more like 176,000. That is the number of fully automatic firearms registered prior to May 1986 available for legal transfer between members of the public according to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. The rest are Class 3 dealer samples and “Restricted 922(o) (‘posties’)” eligible only for transfer to government and military as follows:
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Pre ’86: 175,977
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Sales Samples: 17,020
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Restricted 922(o) (“posties”): 297,667
FOIA Response: MG Count
Second, since 1986, there have been two murders in which legally owned automatic firearms were involved:
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5 September 1988, Patrolman Roger Waller, Dayton, Ohio: Used his registered MAC-11 submachine gun chambered in .380 to kill police informant and local drug dealer Lawrence Hileman.
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14 September 1992, Dr. Shou Chao Ho killed Dr. Carmelito A. Olaes Sr. using a MAC-11 submachine gun chambered in .380. Shou Chao Ho had a grievance with Dr. Olaes, blaming Dr. Olaes having been fired from two hospitals: because he felt that Dr. Olaes was responsible for getting him fired from two hospitals: First from Medina General Hospital, where Shou Chao Ho stabbed a surgeon in the head with a pen, and second from Lodi Community Hospital, where Shou Chao Ho appeared in surgery under the influence of alcohol and other drugs.