What that means is that they are busy trying to manipulate the system.
"Where the law doesn't let us do what we want, we will create & enforce internal policies which will."
They should be brought to book, but because they use "techno mumbo jumbo" the policy makers can be convinced that they are "just doing my job, sir".
Anyone who has any knowledge and "believes" that the gsg5 is a "varient" of an MP5 is either incompetant or deliberately dishonest.