Technically, you can get a fully automatic rifle in the US -- but it's very expensive and requires a special permit. It would have had to have been in circulat

Technically, you can get a fully automatic rifle in the US -- but it's very expensive and requires a special permit. It would have had to have been in circulation prior to the 1986 ban; there is a very limited pool of them in collector's hands and they go for 5 figures.