Automatic weapons are legal in most states, they're just an NFA item and need to have been manufactured + registered prior to 1986. (And due to this, they're ex

Automatic weapons are legal in most states, they're just an NFA item and need to have been manufactured + registered prior to 1986. (And due to this, they're expensive as all hell - think $10k for a gun that sold for ~$120 new in 1980 - and to the best of my knowledge have only been used in two murders since 1934, of which one was a police officer killing a police informant)