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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1056025)	2/20/2018 6:36:39 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

( machine gun firing) – [Voiceover] Well they don’t call the selectors on an automatic firearm fun switches for nothing. I’ve yet to hand off a machine gun to someone and have it not bring a smile to their face, and it brings me joy exposing people to full auto for the first time. A question I get about two or three times per week via email is, “How do I buy a machine gun?” or, “How do I convert my firearm to fully automatic?” This is a question I once hit upon in an article I wrote in 2014, and my standard operating procedure is to simply send a link to it. However, since it’s asked so often, even in YouTube comments, I thought putting it in a video might be a good idea. For the sake of this video the word “machine gun” will meet the ATF’s definition, that is any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot automatically more than one shot without manually reloading by a single function of the trigger. The machine gun was invented by American Hiram Maxim, and, interestingly enough, the USA is one of the few countries on the planet where regular folks can, in fact, own a fully automatic firearm. In fact, machine guns have never been illegal in the United States on a federal level. They are heavily regulated, but certainly not illegal. So first let’s hit a little bit on the timeline of machine gun legislation. Prior to 1934 machine guns were not regulated any differently than any other firearm. You could quite literally order a machine gun from a mail order catalog, and people did. Thompson’s, for example, initially did not interest the military too terribly much, but the guns found a niche with individuals seeking personal protection, police agencies and, unfortunately, gangsters. Prompted by prohibitionary gangsters and the rise of organized crime, which, well, law enforcement was seriously outgunned by the likes of Dillinger, and so on (chuckles), the United States drafted the National Firearms Act, which was passed in 1934. The National Firearms Act did not ban machine guns, but the tax imposed upon them was enormous and unaffordable, adjusting for inflation it was equal to about $3,500 today. To buy a machine gun under the 1934 National Firearms Act an individual needs to submit the following, and this procedure remains relatively unchanged even today: first, pay a tax of $200; then, fill out a lengthy application to register your gun with the federal government in duplicate; then, submit fingerprints, submit passport photographs, get your Chief Law Enforcement Official to sign your application, which is no longer in place, and then wait for the results of your background check to come back approved. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/02/17/how-to-buy-a-machine-gun/