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Originally Posted by naloth
The problem is that's all dependent on the setting. There are certainly settings where you could do just that as well as settings where you could have military hardware. Even if a controlled society, you could run an outlaw gang that flaunted the law by supplying controlled substances <or> or be one of the rare merc groups (blackwater is a common TV trope) that can do all sorts of stuff.
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Sure. But the illustrative example was of the US, and I was answering about the US.
You can make up stories where organizations do that. But they're either going to be secretly criminal organizations, or be openly criminal organization at war with the larger society. You can't just say, "Okay, they do X" and not have consequences.