I agree with restriction creates demand. Especially among contrarian people who figure "Well it's banned, it's gotta be good!" And let's not forget the movies and anime and videogames portraying these awesomely cool guns. Let's get a little deeper though.
The root issue is that raw numbers swell marginal rates. There are not a lot of machinegun harms in the US. Nearly zero with registered machineguns. However, that doesn't mean that if machineguns were made widely available these rates would stay near zero. As the availability and total number of machinegun, especially cheap, shootable machineguns increases, the odds of them being misused increases too. The lack of NFA weapons being used to harm people is evidence that if your gun control is strict enough, it works.
BUT. It also works because semi-auto and even manually operated firearms are 90%+ as effective as machineguns for the vast majority of uses. In many cases they are even preferred to machineguns. As much as I want to flip a switch and dump a mag or 5, or a drum, it's not really worth it to me and nothing in what I want to do with a gun is improved by automatic fire.
Because full auto is cheap. 2 pieces of sheet metal to make most ARs shoot in auto. You can bend a coathanger to create an autosear for an AR. As the video mentions there are other solutions for other guns, and dedicated sub-machineguns are probably the second easiest type of gun to build out of spare steel at Home Depot. But generally people don't. Why? Because a factory PC9 is more accurate, more reliable, better handling and easier to acquire. Increase that barrier to entry and you can look to the gun markets of Central Europe and South America for your examples, where workshops create sub-machineguns in batches and individuals braze them together from spare parts on their lunch break.
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