Machine guns covered by the 1934 National Firearms Act have never been used in a mass shooting in America. That's when prices for machine guns began to skyrocket.ĭepending on how you look at it, the regulation of machine guns could either be a gold standard for gun control or proof that responsible gun owners should be left alone. Making new machine guns for civilians was all but banned in 1986 as part of a compromise in the Firearms Owners' Protection Act. " FBI looks at you, you have to send in fingerprints and photographs, and you do a transfer tax along with each weapon transaction costing $200."īoise State Public Radio Scott Pingree of the Idaho Automatic Weapons Collectors' Association talks about some of the classic rifles from around the world in his collection.
"These weapons entail the necessity for a background check," said David Nielsen, an attorney specializing in firearms issues and president of the IAWCA. It takes a lot to get your hands on one of these guns. You may know the Thompson by its nickname, the "Tommy gun", known for its distinctive round drum magazine. Specifically, the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA), which was prompted by rampant gangland violence often perpetrated by the likes of Al Capone with the Thompson submachine gun. So how does anyone come to own one of these guns?Īutomatic weapons are governed by legislation from a bygone era, unfamiliar to many, one of the last vestiges of stringent federal gun control.
That, however, is a fraction of the roughly 400 million guns in America. Boise State Public Radio A bullet-pocked PT Cruiser after the Idaho Automatic Weapons Collectors' Association annual Pumpkin Shoot at the Black's Creek Public Shooting Range, east of Boise, Idaho.Īccording to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), as of 2017, there were 630,000 machine guns in the U.S.
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