Sure, remember that most of the weapons brought back to the US came from occupying troops, not combat troops.
The poor GIs who actually did the fighting mostly just wanted to go home and where threatened with searches and court marshalls should they attempt to bring back souvenirs. That is why the "it was taken off a dead nazi officer" story is so often bogus. Occupying troops had the time, opportunity and peacetime methods of shipping stuff back they simply got from stockpiles.
This is especially true of the larger items like MP40s, MP44s, MG 34, MG42s..
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