> Technically you can even make your own machine gun legally if it is of your own design and manufacture, doesn't leave the state The only ways to legally prod

> Technically you can even make your own machine gun legally if it is of your own design and manufacture, doesn't leave the state The only ways to legally produce a new machine gun in the US right now are to pay thousands of dollars a year for a federal firearms license and special occupation taxpayer license to manufacture, or to otherwise receive explicit permission from a US government agency to get the ATF to approve a Form 1 application to make and register an NFA firearm. See 18 USC 922 (o) regarding machineguns not registered prior to 1986. (Wickard v Filburn dispensed with the notion of claiming to avoid federal law by keeping activity within one state.)