Machine gun prices??? Expensive in MA or nationwide?

[PistolPete]

For the past few years I was thinking of trying to get my class 3 license. I know it is no easy task and I realize the liberties I would be giving up such as the right to search and seizure... etc.... I stopped researching the licensing process when I found it would cost $15,000-$20,000 for a M.G. The question I have is this the going rate nationwide or is it just a MA. thing because of the assault weapons ban etc.? I could see spending $7500 or so on a M.G. but not $15,000+. I've thought about trying to jump thru all the hoops and see what happens and going from there but figured someone here could give me some insight...

 

[crak]

Nationwide. Somebody can do the particulars better than I can, but after some magical date in the 1980s no new machine guns or certain machine gun parts could be transferred into the general population. The only ones that have been trading hands in the civilian market and wearing their parts out since that day were the ones that got grandfathered in before that.

In MA, it might not be the easiest thing in the world to get your MG permit, but once you do, you're wired into the same national market everybody else is.

 

[Supermoto]

I believe it is may 19th 1986

Pete, get your Green Card, Machine guns are still one of the best investments out there

I believe you can get UZI for around $6k now,
10-15K are for M16 and MP5

 

[securityboy]

For the past few years I was thinking of trying to get my class 3 license. I know it is no easy task and I realize the liberties I would be giving up such as the right to search and seizure... etc.... I stopped researching the licensing process when I found it would cost $15,000-$20,000 for a M.G. The question I have is this the going rate nationwide or is it just a MA. thing because of the assault weapons ban etc.? I could see spending $7500 or so on a M.G. but not $15,000+. I've thought about trying to jump thru all the hoops and see what happens and going from there but figured someone here could give me some insight...

Well where ever you did your research you didn't get great info.

#1. You can still get a number of MG's in the 3-4K range (NIB M11/9's can still be found that price) for your $7500 you have a lot of decent options...

#2. You don't give up any "liberties" (there is no change in search and seizure, etc)

#3.MG's and AW ban have nothing to do with each other. In 1968 no more MG's could be imported for civilian use, and in 1986 no more MG's could be made domesticily for civilian use. So the whole country now has a completely fixed "supply" of transferable MG's, rising costs are nationwide and simply a result of "supply & demand"...

#4. Hoop #1 (if you live in Mass) is to get your green card...then you can hunt down the MG you want, then it is just a matter of paying your $$$ filling out forms, getting printed, and CLEO sign of, and waiting a few months for ATF to approve the transfer (my last transfer only took 1.5 months) then you pick up your gun and go have fun...

#5. Come to the Hanson MG shoot Memorial Day Weekend, and talk to some real MG owners see what it is really about....www.hansonrodandgunclub.org

 

[Miserai]

as for looking for machineguns and prices i would suggest subguns.com they have tons of listings. as for $7500 or under they are Macs, uzis, m2 carbines, AC556, Reising's, s&w 76 just to name a few.

 

[drgrant]

The MA bans are irrelevant to machinegun prices because all civilian transferables were registered before either major ban took place (89 import
and 94 AWB).

About the only thing that gets dicey is magazines.

MG prices nationally are constantly on the rise. What used to be a $6000
AR not that many years ago is now $10K or more, easily.

-Mike