Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook
by sonotathrowaway on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:00AM
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How effective would you rate those federal requirements on fully automatic weapons? If a person wanted to illegally modify a semi-automatic weapon to create an illegal fully-automatic weapon, how feasible would that be?
Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook
by DennisP on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:20PM
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Must weapons that were easy to convert have been pulled off the market. AR-15s used to be easy to convert by buying a little part called an auto sear, but now the auto sear is considered a machine gun by itself, so you have to go through the same hassle to buy that as a full machine gun. Owning this stuff illegally gets you a ten-year felony conviction.
The threshold to be considered a dealer is fairly low. If it's someone with a table, they're going to be a dealer. It's just that if an individual sells their personal firearm, they're not required to do a background check, and at gun shows you'll see a few people walking around with a rifle slung over their shoulder and a sign saying they're selling it.
But that's semi-auto only (one bullet per trigger pull). Fully automatic weapons have stringent federal requirements.