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Hollywood doesn't get a pass from the state on what firearms they're allowed to use.
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Actually, I think they do. Not an official "get out of jail free card" but a sly, under the table wink, wink, "don't put us in a position where we have to actually enforce the law against you" kind of pass.
To say Hollywood is a major source of political money is hardly an understatement.
Most of the guns seen are either props (even firing models) may not legally be gun under CA law, or rentals from someone who is leagal to posess them.
I have even heard that sometimes there are on location machinists who actually make guns (machine guns - smg-etc) for the filming, and destroy them afterwards, never filing one bit of paperwork, or paying the required taxes. Can't say its true, and won't say its not, but there's been talk!
After all, when you are spending a few hundred million dollars, the temptation to cut a few corners on silly laws that really don't matter, after all, its just a movie, must be pretty strong...