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Originally Posted by sailingdog
Legally owning a fully automatic weapon requires a special permit IIRC. However, many of the older semi-automatic weapons can be retrofit to become fully automatic...However, the ATF has cracked down on sale of these retrofit kits.
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One needs a Class III permit in the USA for such things as fully automatic firearms (one pull on trigger and more than one bullet comes out the business end), short barrelled rifles/shotguns, suppressors and other items. In those States where it is allowed the procedure is tedious, cumbersome and time-consuming but anyone fulfilling the legal requirements can get one - even without training of any type.
Retrofit kits have always been illegal. There are trigger groups registered as Class-III which can be dropped into firearms, but these existed prior to the enactment of the 1986 ban.
No (legal) civilian full-auto firearms have entered the legal market since that date; whatever wasn't registered at that time is no longer legal. There are a few special exceptions.