I wouldn't call that a "fact". "Conjecture", maybe. If you believe that most machine gun owners are in it solely for the presumption that the value of their machine guns will be constantly rising, or that they own machine guns because they enjoy lording it over other shooters that they own a machine gun and the others don't, then you might be correct.
But in my experience, you're wrong. Most machine gun owners want to buy more machine guns than they currently own, but can't afford to. Do you think the guy who has an M11/9 now doesn't want an M16, or the guy who has an M16 doesn't want an M240? Or what about an MP7 or Glock 18 or any of the numerous other models that weren't available in 1986 and that no one can get short of becoming an FFL/SOT?
I'm currently down to just an Uzi, having sold my M16 last year and some other ones in the years before that. Not because I needed the money, but because it didn't make financial sense to have so much money tied up in guns that I didn't shoot all that often. If I didn't have to have 5 figures tied up in each machine gun, then I'd have more of them. Also, I can't shoot rifle caliber full-auto on any regular basis because the nearest range I can do that is 70+ miles away. None of the dozen ranges closer to me allow it. Now, if everybody who owns an SBR could have a machine gun instead, then the odds are a lot better that more ranges would allow full-auto.
And as for actually shooting machine guns, I find that doing mag dumps gets boring really quick. I'd love to shoot machine guns competitively instead of just standing stationary in an indoor lane shooting at paper, or outside shooting at dirt clods or whatever. But the nearest machine gun competition is 250+ miles away, and requires either an overnight trip or getting up at 4 am on a Saturday, so it's been awhile since I've bothered to go. If more people had machine guns, more people would want to shoot them competitively and I could likely do it somewhere closer.
Not all machine guns would lose all their value, anyways. Sure, an M11/9 would go back to being a couple hundred dollars, but if you think a 1921 Thompson or something like that would lose much of it's value, then I think you're incorrect. A big part of its value is in the fact that it's an original.
But go on thinking that there's some mysterious cabal of machine gun owners who want to keep the rest of the gun-owning public down.

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