Actually, most people can buy an automatic weapon. Just requires more paperwork and an extra $200 tax and some extra time.
“Actually, most people can buy an automatic weapon. Just requires more paperwork and an extra $200 tax and some extra time.”
Not really, because the 1986 law “froze” the number of legal automatics in the country. There are only a few hundred thousand allowed for “most people” in the whole country. In order for “most people” to buy them, they would have to take turns to own them for a day then sell them to someone else. That way, over the course of a year, “most people” would get a chance...
But the actual processing time is in the months, perhaps one hundred to two hundred days... so it would take over a hundred years for “most people” to own one for a day.