Ah the good old days! Remember when Bobby Kennedy was killed? That same week the ATF raided a shop in South Cal that was making full auto machine guns without a license for sale in South America. It was said they had the permission of LBJ to do it.
The there was the APACHE semi-auto rifle for sale in the 1970s, until it was found you could pull the trigger and press the safety then it would go full auto.
Then an attempt to smuggle into the USA full auto firearms from South America, namely from El Salvador using mob ties.
And who can forget the Clinton’s Chinese friend who tried to smuggle thousands of full auto AK-47s into the USA.
We were fishing up and down the FL east coast, catch a load of snapper, go explore some more.
We had a Boyse AT rifle that mounted on the pilot house roof, no big deal then but couldn't do it now.
That gun ended up headed for The Bay of Pigs.