Did gun stores sell a lot of full auto guns?
Around here they did.
where m16's sold full auto?
Yes, if they were in the registry.
Once the ban happen they just removed all full auto guns from the shelf?
No. The prices of what was available just tripled initially, and then took off from there.
what happen to those guns?
Those that were smart, bought cheap and sold high.
Did the guns go to waste?
Nope
Paid $800 fro this ($450 for the HK94, $350 for Flemming to convert it, the week prior to the ban too I might add.)
Only paid $225 for this (Ignore the top. I blew that up with hot Spanish SMG ammo early on
) ....
Ammo was much more expensive back then in real dollars.
Ammo was cheap and plentiful. We were literally buying it by the truck load, and 2000 round cases of 9mm were going for around $150 depending on what you were buying, some a little more, some even less with the right deals. .308 was around a $100-150 a case.
Most CLEOs would not sign off on a machine gun back then.
We never had any troubles.
That's why there are only about 182,000 transferable weapons.
At the time of the ban, I believe there were around 250,000 guns in the registry. Once the word snuck out(the NRA was worthless and basically said nothing), they quit making whole guns, and went to making the receivers and the trigger packs, and basically, about doubled the number of guns in the registry. Now, what there is, is what there is, and things now go due to attrition.
Pretty easy to understand. On May 19, 1986; the registry closed and machine guns became illegal for ordinary citizens.
Illegal to "build", not own.
Your tax stamp on an automatic weapon is an affirmative defense against prosecution.
Most of the time. Dont lose that stamp, and hope they didnt lose things on their end.
One big complaint has been the registry is a mess, and full of errors. That alone should stop the sillyness, but we allow it to go on, so why shold they interfere.
Domestic machine guns and conversions were banned to all but dealers on May 19, 1986.
If the gun was transferable in 86, it still is.
Unregistered machine guns are worth 10 years hard time in Federal prison.
True. But if you strip the gun, and toss the "registered" part, usually the receiver, you can still make out quite well with the parts. Just make sure you destroy what needs destroyed, and do it as they prescribe. Still probably best to just get rid of it all together either way.
Full-auto fire control groups do not drop into semi-automatic guns.
Actually, with the HK's they can and do.
Semi-automatic receivers and full-auto receivers are machined differently.
Sometimes, sometimes not. Sometimes, the addition of a couple holes is all thats necessary.
Then theres always DIAS's (drop in auto sears)
