As long as you pay the $200 tax stamp and pass what's probably a year-long background check, you can legally own a fully-automatic weapon. The weapon itself would be prohibitively expensive (probably something like $40k), and finding one at all would be difficult since their manufacture is all but banned, but yes, it is technically possible for an average person to legally own a fully-automatic weapon.
Interesting. I wonder why these weapons are not more available. Surely, they are produced for military use. Why is gun control so effective here? Is there maybe much less demand for automatic weapons (since they provide no added benefit as far as I know)?
They effectively priced out automatic weapons. They knew they couldn’t win a ban on a legal front so they made it prohibitively expensive to be licensed and own one.
As long as you pay the $200 tax stamp and pass what's probably a year-long background check, you can legally own a fully-automatic weapon. The weapon itself would be prohibitively expensive (probably something like $40k), and finding one at all would be difficult since their manufacture is all but banned, but yes, it is technically possible for an average person to legally own a fully-automatic weapon.
Interesting. I wonder why these weapons are not more available. Surely, they are produced for military use. Why is gun control so effective here? Is there maybe much less demand for automatic weapons (since they provide no added benefit as far as I know)?
They effectively priced out automatic weapons. They knew they couldn’t win a ban on a legal front so they made it prohibitively expensive to be licensed and own one.