How did so many uzis end up in the hands of American criminals?

How did so many uzis end up in the hands of American criminals?

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Comments about (((them))) incoming

Uzis being prevalent among criminals is a Hollywood myth

>Be a criminal
>Have more disposable income than is healthy
>Probably barely more than fudd-tier understanding of firearms
>Buy a bunch of guns that scare the negroes you do business with.

i imagine many were sold to south america and got to the states through the drug cartels in the 80's but i dont relly know

Myth. Its mostly MACs, because they were and are the cheapest FA option. Even then those werent common either. Its mostly revolvers, .25 pocket pistols, and hi points.

I don't really know, haven't researched. I suspect they were imported before the open bolt ban and then illegally converted into machine guns due to their relative simplicity.

Bet on this too, for sure Colombian cartels was connected to some Lebanese and Israeli harbors and was smuggling thing from there. Finding a Uzi was probably possible, since they have boats and crew.

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Because they cost dick to make compared to most other subguns and are wicked concealable. Plus the fact that the MAC family & clones can't be distinguished from the Uzi by most room-temp-iq gangsters. Add in that they were one of the few highly-popular SMGs for the import market pre-Hughes meaning that a bunch of them flooded in (legally or otherwise). Then with the whole '80s/'90s gangbanger obsession wit dat nine and the aforementioned not being able to tell their "uzi" was just a shitty cobray MAC10 clone, it kind of became the iconic driveby gun regardless of whether or not legit Uzis were being used.

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In this case it wasn't (((them))) but rather the CIA

As other anons have said it's a hollywood myth and shit like MACS and Tec-9's were far more common in the US as far as submachine guns go back in that era.

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>be high ranking drug dealer
>have money
>have friends who know friends who know friends who know people who have stolen military caches
>ask friends to contact those guys
>get snuck over border
>get guns

Alternatively
>gun runner knows people who have stolen or not so stolen uzis and macs
>run it across the border
>sell to drug dealers with money

>In this case it wasn't (((them))) but rather the CIA

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There's nothing here, stop digging

So much this.
If you show a picture of a MAC-11 or MAC-10 to some random person on the street, they'll probably think it's an UZI.
My uncle was a gun collector and had a couple of those Cobray M-11/9 pistols,
after he passed away my family went though his collection and everyone thought they were "UZI's."

This is absolutely false as there were no open bolt semiauto UZI's ever imported or sold in the US, only MAC's.
Action Arms imported IMI made Model A and Model B UZI carbines in various configurations throughout the 80's but they were substantially more expensive than MAC's.

(((They))) are the CIA

this

but also these

Israel has America by the tits

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>(((they))) are not the CIA spooks

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Jews or something

Smuggling

How well do they perform?

Disregard the other faggots in here.

The real answer is because a lot of uzis were sold by a company called Action Arms in the 80s and 90s (before AWB) as open-bolt semis with long barrels. People bought those, converted them to FA and sawed off the barrels. Since then they have been floating around and it's really easy to get replacement parts of uzis off of other uzis or from overseas. The gun has seen military service and been around since the 50s so there are already a goddamn zillion of them, just like the PPSh.

Well

the CIA also exported many mac 10s alright hear is a conspiracy theory from the 80s
>be my uncle summer 1980 Georgia his boss at the time is a paranoid pepper type specially really worried and scared of government.
>tells my uncle that he can get a machine gun discreetly with no serial number and suppressor just in case.
>uncle says hes interested
>he goes and sees the guy and he sees dozens of mac 10s in briefcases with suppressors, may also have been the briefcases that you can shoot out of
based on the way my uncle was telling it it sounded like they were stacked to the ceiling
>my uncle turned down the offer.
>according to my uncle there was a some kind of shift at the factory where guns without serial numbers were made for the CIA to export.
>theirs also another story involved of a guy on coke in a hotel room in Atlanta that got busted by the police with like to of those briefcases and apparently there was a murder in a mall in Atlanta that involved this whole thing.

That's not so much a conspiracy against the american people as it is probably a conspiracy to arm a bunch of latin americans with guns that couldn't be traced back to the US.

My old krav instructor was a SEAL in the 80s and he told me about doing exfils on blackhawks filled to the brim with keys of coke. Cause and effect, they just wanted to build up the black budget and arms dealing is a good way to make it happen.

There's a difference?

What's the fuckin' difference