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Originally Posted by CroFlames

I hate to be a pedant because I am on your side, but no one owns fully auto weapons in the USA. Only the military and special police units.

I'll be a pedant as well because that is inaccurate. Depending on the state there are licenses and permits to own fully automatic weapons as individuals or some as gunsmiths/dealers and you can also own a grandfathered receiver that is pre-1986.

That gets us to the first loophole: If you have an automatic weapon from before 1986, it was grandfathered through the law. So it’s still legal to buy, sell, and exchange these kinds of weapons, including in Nevada, as long as they’re a few decades old — although with some extra hurdles that don’t apply to other types of firearms, such as registering fully automatic guns with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and paying a special tax, with the risk of additional penalties if someone doesn’t comply.

There are more than 630,000 of these guns in circulation, according to federal data.