As LEO and gang members have confirmed, it doesn’t matter what a gang member carries. They carry .22s and even guns with incorrect ammo in them.
They don’t care about furniture and optics. They spray from the hip. And they don’t buy the good stuff.
The only gangs that carry stuff that’s remotely “level headed” are the biker gangs. They all carry good but non-tactical (Lots of Ruger stuff)
I still think these guys were given those gun by someone in the know. If they are stolen, they stole from someone who could be any one of us.
Stay focused on this, and lock your stuff up. If this is stolen gear (Which honestly, and I’m being honest I have NEVER even heard of a white kid doing) then they are displaying in a way that is not congruent.
Weapons of those sources show up in amateur rap videos and ghetto threat videos that are all over youtube.
I read an arrest report once, about a Gangster Disciple that had a Glock 9 mil in his possession.
The problem being that it was loaded with .380 rounds.
He apparently did not know the difference.
The thug stated that he had indeed fired the gun with the .380 ammo and related that he had stolen the gun out of the trunk of a car that had been impounded for evidence and was supposedly secured in a police impound yard.
It had no rounds with it when he stole it...he had shoplifted the .380 rounds later, from a sporting goods store.
I've read and been told that .380 will feed and fire in quite a few 9 mils...I ain't gonna try it, but in any event, if it did feed and fire, it was capable of killing someone.