A lot of that has to do with the availability of them. The Hughes Amendment created a situation where MG’s are not commonly held because of the ban. Get rid of that ban and you’ll see massive numbers of MG’s being owned legally. As it is now, there’s several times the number of contraband MG’s in the US vs. legally owned and registered ones. The Hughes Amendment has created a very interesting situation that will result in the destruction of the NFA before long.
Pretty much EVERY .mil pattern “semi-auto” out there was originally designed as a select-fire weapon.
And they are ubiquitous to put it mildly.
One of the lawyers over on AFRCOM is formally putting together a challenge to this. Not just the attempted revocation of an approved Form 1 stamp, but to 922 in it’s entirety.
Stay tuned.