Reply #14: You are only partially correct... [View All]

[Buster43]

Anybody here can own a National Firearms Act (NFA) weapon providing you live in a state that doesn't prohibit them (CA, MA, etc.). And that your criminal history is clean. What happens is this; you want a full auto weapon, you go to a NFA (Class III) dealer. Fill out a ton of paperwork as well as fingerprints, pay $200 for the tax stamp (non-refundable), the dealer sends all the paperwork off to BATFE with the endorsement from your police chief, or Sherrif, or DA, etc. Then you wait, wait and wait some more, sometimes up to 6 months for the director of BATFE to endorse the request. Once that happens, the paperwork is sent back to the dealer who calls the buyer to pick up the gun. The paperwork follows the gun and it is illegal to take it out of state unless you BATFE approval.

What those chuckleheads in LA did was illegally convert AK 47's to full auto. The cops were outgunned and some literally went to a gun store nearby where the dealer actually loaned them some semi-auto, high powered AR-15's.

And someone here said they consider a revolver the same as a NFA weapon? That is the most ludicrous statement I have ever heard. I defy anybody here to find where a LEGALLY owned NFA weapon was used in a crime since 1934.