by Tdarcos » Mon Jul 08, 2019 4:28 am
AArdvark wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:51 pm
Oh, there's no social responsibility at all in Billy's parents. Maybe he asked for one and they just bought him one for Christmas.
Also it's 1951 according to the calendar in the other room so they could have bought a machine gun at Monkey Ward.
Well, Jesus, I can barely even see there is a calendar in the background, let alone read it to see what year allegedly was written on it. What did you use to read it, an electron microscope?
But as for walking into Montgomery Wards, a hardware store, or a gun store in 1951, just buy a machine gun, pay cash, and take it home, no, you couldn't. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns, yeah. Automatic weapons require you apply for a transfer from ATF and pay a $200 license fee. ATF had to approve the transfer before the machine gun could be transferred to the new owner. This has been the requirement for automatic weapons, and sawed-off shotguns or rifles since the 1930s. Don't know what the wait time was then, but right now, the BATFE has about a one year backlog on approving National Firearms Act weapons transfers.
Contrary to popular belief, sawed-off shotguns are not illegal, you just have to apply for a federal NFA license, pay the $200 fee, and receive the license
before cutting the barrel down. The tax stamp that comes with the license must be affixed to the sawed-off rifle or shotgun.
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Oh, there's no social responsibility at all in Billy's parents. Maybe he asked for one and they just bought him one for Christmas.
Also it's 1951 according to the calendar in the other room so they could have bought a machine gun at Monkey Ward.
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Well, Jesus, I can barely even see there is a calendar in the background, let alone read it to see what year allegedly was written on it. What did you use to read it, an electron microscope?
But as for walking into Montgomery Wards, a hardware store, or a gun store in 1951, just buy a machine gun, pay cash, and take it home, no, you couldn't. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns, yeah. Automatic weapons require you apply for a transfer from ATF and pay a $200 license fee. ATF had to approve the transfer before the machine gun could be transferred to the new owner. This has been the requirement for automatic weapons, and sawed-off shotguns or rifles since the 1930s. Don't know what the wait time was then, but right now, the BATFE has about a one year backlog on approving National Firearms Act weapons transfers.
Contrary to popular belief, sawed-off shotguns are not illegal, you just have to apply for a federal NFA license, pay the $200 fee, and receive the license [i]before[/i] cutting the barrel down. The tax stamp that comes with the license must be affixed to the sawed-off rifle or shotgun.