California: Machinegun used to shoot up neighborhood in Rancho Cordova

Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies shot one person and detained two others after a machine gun-wielding man terrorized a Rancho Cordova neighborhood Thursday afternoon.

“The initial call states that a guy was outside just shooting a machine gun off,” said Sgt. Jason Ramos of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. “Not at any particular person, but just shooting a machine gun off outside of a house.”

http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sacramento/rancho-cordova-school-on-lockdown-due-to-police-activity/35206316

Now, this could be another typical example of the news media calling a standard AK type rifle a machinegun, but let’s take it at face value:

Laws broken:

• Federal National Firearms Act of 1934 – requires all machineguns be registered, with the owner background checked and fingerprinted.
• California further requires a permit for owning a machinegun – these are rarely issued.
• California has banned most “assault weapon” style rifles on top of this.

Odds that this weapon was legally owned? Slim to None.