'If you Google M-16 plans or MAC-11 plans,' he said, 'you're probably going to come up with a dozen or more sites that will give you information on how to build them.' 8-month investigation McGowan said he was surprised officers have not seized more MAC-11 forgeries before because instructions for how to make them are readily available online. 'Especially when they can shoot 1,200 rounds per minute.' 'Any guns in the wrong hands is of significant concern,' he said. The weapons are heavy and inaccurate and pose a high risk to the public, Blais said. 'If I poke that in your nose and you see the ominous black look of this machine gun in your face, as a bad guy I have a lot of street cred with that,' he said. The weapons are status symbols among gangsters and drug traffickers, said Gordon McGowan, owner of MilArm Co.
(ALERT)Īn ALERT spokesperson said each MAC-11 can fetch up to $5,000 on the black market. Officers seized four prohibited firearms, including this Beretta handgun equipped with a suppressor.
