[LT. Ox]

I can only give you my experience here in Colorado as a Law enforcement Officer on the west side of the
Rockies. I owned an M-1 Garand, Ruger mini-14 ( modified with a folding stock, four power scope and shortened two inches for Swat) an ’06 four grove 30-06 ( sporterized and scoped) Remington .308 semi auto also scoped, Browning .22 semi auto and another bold action .22
Four different twelve gauge shotguns, one was a Browning semi auto with short barrel (18”) that I carried in the Army another a model 870 for the Sheriffs vehicle. Two sixteen gauge shotguns and a twenty gauge side by.
I had No less then four had guns at any one time and as many as twelve. Mostly carried a Model 19 Smith and Wesson four “. But also carried 1911 Officers model .45 and a Commander of the same caliber, near the end of my time I started carrying a Smith .40.
In our area we had, legally registered, two M-2 .50 ca. l MG one .30 cal. Several (by that I mean over a dozen) various other auto weapons. I was made privy to the information by the FBI and ATF.
It was also believed that at least twice that number was cached here by one group or another.
I confiscated at least a dozen auto weapons between 1978 and 1986 from drug related actions. These were mac and Uzi for the most part but one was an M-2 .30 carbine. I also removed from the street more than a dozen altered (shortened) shotguns.
While working undercover in Colorado springs with a group of Cuban dealers I observed a cache of at least twenty four Macs these were purported to me as being able to rock and roll they also had either actual or non-working suppressors. They were never found when we shut the group down three months later.
That covers some of what I saw here in the years 1978 to 1990. Rumors of much more persisted and still do as a matter of fact.