Nothing is out of the price range of these thugs.
They simply steal it or steal the money to purchase it or sell enough drugs to purchase it.
The tell (and point) is the fact that not a damned one of them has the intelligence level to understand the equipment or have the knowledge for proper deployment of it.
They simply possess it for the "cool" factor they imagine they get from it.
Not saying they don't know how to pull the trigger...that's instinctive for most folks, even these cretins...just saying they're too damned stupid to understand and effectively deploy the enhanced characteristics of the weapon.
I could probably take out at least four of them with a .380 before they had time to react with their stupid Rambo shit.
It's all well and good to have that stuff...but if you don't know how to use it or have never trained with it...all you're doing is carrying around a shocking boat anchor.
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.