Pretty common for the police to go overboard when dealing with such matters. They are all about the "optics" these days. We see it in Canada all the time when they raid petty drug dealers and come away with large caches of "machine guns" which they lay out on tables for the press to photograph and it makes great soundbites for the evening news...of course more often than not these are legal semi-auto guns and air-soft versions of real guns...except when they give everything back later on nobody is ever around to cover that story...but it sure makes them look tough on crime and gangs and help justify their armored vehicles and members running around in black fatigues with subdued insignia and balaclava's over their faces...doesn't do much to scare the criminals or terrorists but sure scares hell out of mom and pop...
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