Does anyone know if the 1986 ban on full-auto weapons is still in effect? Or did it expire already? Someone once told me that in the U.S. it is now legal to purchase brand new full-auto weapons (that they don’t have to be pre-ban weapons). I’m not sure if that information is actually correct or not. Does anyone know for sure?
Ok, but why are those weapons still so expensive then? Shouldn’t free market principles be driving the price down?
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Yes, this ban is still in effect. The act (called the Firearms Owner Protection Act of 1986) made it unlawful for a citizen to transfer or possess a machine gun unless that machine gun was lawfully possessed at the time the law went into effect.
The law is currently codified in the United States Code, Title 18, section 922(o)(2)(B).
The ban was written for 25 years, so yes. It is done.
Lots of red tape and paper-work, but it’s very possible to buy one.
That is what it sounded like to me also. With the recent BATFE disaster implicating the WE M4 Gas Blowbacks, that is only a lot more bad advertising for Airsoft.