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They profited off the sales and increased regulations. Remember when DHS was buying up all the ammo? They were inflating prices and reaping the benefits while ahippingbthe shit the Mexico to increase immigration furthering the fear cycle and citizen arming. This allowed them to militarize the police to counter the armed citizens. They were banking on an all out civil war with mass citizen deaths and as a bonus vast expansion of emminant domain/asset forfeiture related to said citizen uprising against the govt.