Openly carrying rifles and shotguns in Nevada and in most of the American states is completely legal and you do not need permit for that sort of display. That means that you can walk around Las Vegas with a military-style rifle, even though private businesses can bar them. Owning a fully automatic firearm is also legal in Nevada, but you’ll have to pay 200 dollars fee and submit to a federal background check and fingerprinting. That can last up to one year. Huffington Post reports that this weaponry is regulated under the National Firearms Act.
Most of the states don’t have laws specifically restricting machine guns. These weapons are rare and very expensive. Benjamin Bunker, a Las Vegas attorney who specializes in firearms-related matters says that they cost between $20,000 and $30,000.
-If he was going to buy a full-auto machine gun, he would’ve found a dealer online selling it, they would have entered into a purchase agreement, he’d pay the guy, the guy would then transfer the full-auto machine gun to a dealer, and then the dealer holds on to that gun until the [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives] gives him the green light – said Bunker.
Bunker explains that there are plenty of firearms on the black market, but illegal full-automatic machine guns are a top priority for ATF. It is also harder to find them. Nevada does not restrict open carrying of machine guns.
Authorities confirmed that the Las Vegas shooter used fully automatic gunfire. The police said there were a lot of firearms in his hotel room, some of which were long rifles.
Military-style rifles are semi-automatic and are not capable of automatic fire, but can be illegally altered to do so. Nevada, like most of the states, does not restrict this type of semi-automatic weaponry, and it doesn’t limit high-capacity magazines.
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