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The only reason they had them in the first place was because the government enacted Prohibition, creating a market for illegal liqour, which gave the criminals the money they needed in the first place to get those guns that nobody else could afford.


Wrong the Thompson sub machine gun was affordable prior to prohibition. The target customer being western ranches.
Dillinger wasn't a bootlegger but he had a Thompson. Bonnie and Clyde weren't bootleggers but they loved their BARs.

Also the Government never enacted prohibition. The people of the United States did.