I know automatic firearms aren’t illegal, but you must purchase them from a class 3 weapons dealer, but is there a particular license needed to purchase one yourself? Or do you just need to pay the federal transfer tax on the weapon?
Related posts:
- Obtaining federal firearms license question?
- Why are there so many steps in purchasing a firearm, and so few in puchasing ammunition?
- Question about the legal process of buying/owning a rifle?
- Question on purchasing automatic firearms?
- MA private gun sales question?
- 2nd Amendment and the delineation of fully automatic weapons?
- Does www.fastfire.biz actually sell bullet-firing automatic guns?
- Does www.fastfire.biz actually sell automatic bullet-firing guns?
- Can you purchase/own an automatic weapon without a specialized license with weapons made prior to related laws?
- Firearms license question(s)?
Federal law only requires you to undergo a background investigation, get the approval of your chief law enforcement officer (Sheriff or Chief of Police) and pay the transfer tax.
They also must be pre ban (manufactured or registered before 1986). Any automatic weapon manufactured after a certain date in 1986 which I do not remember is restricted to Military and Law Enforcement Use only. So the pre 1986 (civilian) weapons are very expensive.
Your state may or may not have stricter laws regulating the possession of these weapons.
you have to pay the transfer tax & go thru a background check.
transfer tax and extensive background check it also must be manufactured before 1986