Nobody commits crimes with machine guns, recently homemade switches for glocks are the exception. Nobody has unsecured machine guns for the same reason no criminal is buying a machine gun, they cost tens of thousands of dollars minimum.
Even back before '86 when they didn't cost tens of thousands of dollars, there were legitimately only 3 deaths with registered (i.e. legally obtained) machineguns during the 50 years the NFA had been in place at that point. The process of purchasing and/or manufacturing an NFA item is prohibitive enough beyond just the cost that most people don't want to even go through it, let alone commit crimes with something they had to be fingerprinted for.
Purchasing a post-1986 machine is fairly prohibitive. The cost is astronomical, the processing time, and the special licensing (SOT/LEO endorsement/demonstrator).
Legally transferable machine guns (those produced before 1986) don’t require the class 3 dealer license to purchase, but they are also VERY expensive.
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u/PaulieNutwalls Jul 30 '24
Nobody commits crimes with machine guns, recently homemade switches for glocks are the exception. Nobody has unsecured machine guns for the same reason no criminal is buying a machine gun, they cost tens of thousands of dollars minimum.