Can you build an automatic weapon for personal use?

I think the questions is not can or could I build, but is it legal to build. You can do a lot of things-but they could lead to trouble.
Short answer yes you can but it would make you a felon unless you have the proper federal lic..
 
"If you have a class 3 ffl, you can have full autos for personal use."

Nope. If you are in business with an FFL 01 and an Class 3 SOT stamp, full autos that you have in your business stock for sale to the military or LE are not yours, they belong to the business. If you lose your license or go out of business, you can't keep them as personal property or transfer them to yourself because as an individual you can't own them.

(Yes, you can "test" or "demonstrate" or "function check" guns you have in stock, but again that is business use, not personal use. ;) )

Jim
 
Nope. If you are in business with an FFL 01 and an Class 3 SOT stamp, full autos that you have in your business stock for sale to the military or LE are not yours, they belong to the business. If you lose your license or go out of business, you can't keep them as personal property or transfer them to yourself because as an individual you can't own them.
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True, if you are speaking of post-'86 "samples." If the are pre-'86 transferables, you can keep them. But then you really didn't need the FFL for a transferable MG.

If you have an 07FFL (manufacturer) and Class 2 SOT (Class 2 is for manufacturers), you can manufacture a full auto, but then it has to be given up or destroyed if you give up your FFL.
 
The thread started out to be about manufacturing an automatic weapon, the on to who could do so, then to dealing in auto weapons, and somewhere I got confused. A class 3 dealer can have an automatic weapon for his personal use if it was registered before 1986, but so can just about anyone else.

Jim
 
Those shooting gallery guns were BB guns that ran on compressed air.
They were not .22 short.
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I had to look this up, it's been so many years ago and my memory is fuzzy.

But apparently you remember correctly and I'm wrong. The .22 were the pumps. And they went away even earlier.

Not what the OP asked, but if you built an air operated full auto - is this what the air soft guns people talk about are - that should be outside the jail bait territory wouldn't it?
 
Full Auto airguns are legal from a federal standpoint. Airguns may be regulated at the state & local levels.
 
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Been milling shapes like that for a few thousand years :)
 
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