Actually if you had the money you could buy them no no problem. Civilians having machine guns is idiotic. Just be glad collectors can get them and they can't be produced anymore for civilian use.The regulation that is good is that they are no longer produced for civilians and are no longer a threat d u h.Irrelevant... They become less numerous all the time according to your own stats... They are already well regulated. End of story.Bullshit. New old stock parts are readily available for any firearm you can think of. Ebay is even a great source for firearms parts: If I have a firearm that's not worth restoring or would cost too much to restore, I part the damned thing out and sell the parts on Ebay for pretty good money. I can pick up junk guns at garage sales for around $20 and make a couple hundred dollars off the parts alone.
So if that are already "well regulated", what's your problem with any law-abiding citizen owning them?
Likewise, if there are already laws on the books which disqualifies criminals from purchasing firearms, what makes you think that additional laws would also work?
Obviously the laws need more teeth d u h. Something is really wrong with your brains, dupes.
They never were a threat....duh. The gangsters stole them from the cops, and the military, but they rarely did anything to the civilian population with them. Most criminals knew back then to leave the civilian population alone. Which is why when there was an aberration, such as bonnie and clyde, or jesse james, who actively sought to kill civilians, they were reviled and hunted down fairly quickly because the general population hated them.
I own five of them. I used to own a lot more of them but when they jumped in value to absurd levels I sold the bulk of my collection and bought a airplane and hangar with the money. Why do you believe it is idiotic for civilians to own guns that PROVABLY have not been used in crime. Since the NFA was passed back in 1934 the only recorded instance of a legally owned machinegun being used to commit a crime was a POLICEMAN who murdered his wife with one.