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They can be retained by people who had bought them before 1994 them but buying one is incredibly difficult in terms of money and paperwork.
by Symmetry 7y ago
They can be retained by people who had bought them before 1994 them but buying one is incredibly difficult in terms of money and paperwork.
- refurb 7y agoNo. There is no federal “assault weapons” laws, they expired in 2004. In most states you can purchase one, some states (CA, NY,CT) have banned them.
- homonculus1 7y ago"Assault weapons" is a purposely misleading term designed to generate the confusion with "assault rifles" that you're currently experiencing. Assault rifles are indeed illegal to purchase without extensive paperwork and fees, and then only if the weapon itself was registered and grandfathered in before 1986. These weapons are heavily regulated and cost tens of thousands of dollars, despite being effectively never used in crime even at the time they were banned.
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y agoI originally wrote "assault weapons" in my comment then changed that to "assault rifles" because I'm fairly certain what the latter, is but not so much the former. Maybe the OP was responding to that earlier version? If so, apologies for the confusion.
- huffmsa 7y agoCorrect, but the National Firearms Act of 1934 which actually bans the sale of machine guns and other automatic rifles is still alive and well. "Assault weapons" is a meaningless phrase.