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Two fully automatic submachine guns believed to be manufactured at a machinist shop west of Edmonton were among the prohibited firearms seized following an eight-month investigation by the province’s integrated law enforcement unit.

The two MAC-11 handguns, capable of firing an entire magazine of 30 rounds in seconds with a single pull of the trigger, were also outfitted with suppressors and oversized magazines, police said Wednesday.

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Members of ALERT Edmonton’s Guns and Gangs unit arrested two suspects on Aug. 17 after Edmonton Police Service and RCMP officers helped search two Edmonton homes and a rural property in Parkland County.

In total, four prohibited firearms were seized, including a Beretta handgun equipped with a suppressor and a modified Suomi submachine gun with two oversized magazines.

Acting Insp. Pierre Blais, head of the guns and gangs unit, said investigators believe six MAC-11s were manufactured by the suspects. Police are trying to track down four of the firearms that were likely sold on the black market.