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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
can you eleborate on that one single proen incident for both criminal and police?
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Since 1934, there appear to have been at least two homicides committed with legally owned automatic weapons. One was a murder committed by a law enforcement officer (as opposed to a civilian). On September 15th, 1988, a 13-year veteran of the Dayton, Ohio police department, Patrolman Roger Waller, then 32, used his fully automatic MAC-11 .380 caliber submachine gun to kill a police informant, 52-year-old Lawrence Hileman. Patrolman Waller pleaded guilty in 1990, and he and an accomplice were sentenced to 18 years in prison. The 1986 'ban' on sales of new machine guns does not apply to purchases by law enforcement or government agencies.
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Thanks to the staff of the Columbus, Ohio Public Library for the details of the Waller case.
Source: talk.politics.guns FAQ, part 2.
The other homicide,
possibly involving a legally owned machine gun, occurred on September 14, 1992, also in Ohio
As far as criminal actions, I only know of a few, most notably the L.A. bank robbery shootout.
It should also be noted that In 1995 there were over 240,000 machine guns registered with the BATF. With only one confirmed and one POSSIBLE crime related to registered machine guns, it should be obvious to anyone with intelligence that law abiding citizens who go through the arduous process proscribed to obtain one is not going to commit a crime with one.