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Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
I have a customer that might know the low down on what it takes to own an
automatic weapon, of which one is an assault rifle under the original definition when they were first manufactured. They are strongly federally regulated so it should not be too hard to spell out the particulars. I do know year of manufacture makes a difference on what it takes to legally own one.
There are 11 different types of federal firearm licenses, I know my customer has one or more, I will ask him next week. He might tell me he only cares about the licenses needed to conduct his business, and he does have time nor care to research the other ones. A FFL holder will definitely have an easier path to obtaining an automatic weapon than someone without one.
Anyone with time, money and a clean record passing a background check can legally own one, unless there is a state law overriding it. Prepare to have plenty of money. fill out a mountain of paperwork, and wait.
My customer manufacturers parts to restore vintage long guns.
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A current handgun licence and very deep pockets plus a state that is shall issue and not may issue. I have known a few who have owned them. One guy had a thompson 45 submachine gun and got to keep it until hard times forced him to sell it at a profit. Another was a HK 9 MM, with the silencer. I got to shoot that one, it was so quiet that the paper was the loudest as bullets printed the paper. Shooting with no ear protection early morning was amazing, this guy never really went full auto. Had to travel with 9x11 FFL documents in hand all the time for both the gun and silencer. The fed knows the risk is smaller than a
extintion asteroid hit on the earth so the $400 Federal stamp tax is the best money that goes into a hole that never gets recorded. You buy $400 plus what it costs, cross state lines $400, leave the country as a mercenary $400, return $400. The latter is picked up by contracts from Blackwater or other military contractors.
