I mean, I've known people who owned ATF-licensed automatic weapons. They're scarce because no new licenses have been issued since the '86 ban, but prices for gr

I mean, I've known people who owned ATF-licensed automatic weapons. They're scarce because no new licenses have been issued since the '86 ban, but prices for grandfathered weapons tend to run in the order of tens of thousands of dollars, depending on what you want and who's selling. If you're looking for conspiracy theories, looking past the ownership of large numbers of military jets, to the handful of rich-enthusiast-grade small arms, seems like a weird flex.