Every time I hear an American war correspondent talking about their experience covering war zones, they talk about how they had to get a license to carry a select fire rifle capable of full auto fire anywhere at all times (which if they forgot to carry with them even once they would immediately be sent back home by the military), but the details of this are always said in passing. What license are they talking about? How did they get a "modem machine gun"? Did the military give it to them? Did their organization (CBS, Fox, ect.) buy it for them? Did they buy it themselves?