Fast & Furious is EXACTLY what I was thinking. That’s what made this sound plausible to me. If TPTB are ok with F&F, then why not this?
Makes me think... we talk about back in the day guns were widely available and people weren’t getting shot right and left. But they weren’t THAT widely available and the young toughs would make “zip guns” out of stolen car antennas, and then the “cheap saturday night specials” were the thing. When did they start getting arsenals?