[Frankie]

the main 3 gangs, BB, BH, and LC have been passed down to many different leaders since the last reset, it gave a lot of chances to leak the guns. each time a new leader was put into place, the guns were not reset. they stayed out in the economy. it's been a while now to the point where they are literally just lying around in people's inventories/storages. they sell them, and some kid will be like "cool I got an sg552, let's join LC" so yeah, Chris is right.

when new gangs release, sometimes the leader is smart and only gives the gun out to high ranking members. but even that's shown to fall apart because they wind up getting mad at someone, leave the gang and sell it to some lowbie in the gang. then it circulates.