“Parliamentarians from the Los Ríos region described the clandestine weapons factory found in the commune of Panguipulli as serious. The senator of Renovación Nacional, María José Gatica, assured that this discovery represents the capacity of criminal organizations to establish complex and technically advanced operations in rural areas.
For this reason, she called on the president, Gabriel Boric, to take responsibility and declare a state of emergency in the area because “we are a regrettable example of how organized crime has advanced.
It is not possible that criminals are better equipped than those who govern us.”
{Hermit Note: From the pictures it appears they were mass producing a SMG (threaded for a homemade suppressor) based loosely on the Open Bolt Sten with a standard vertical magazine instead of the horizontal side-mounted magazine.}