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Joeaksa Joeaksa is offline
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Juan,

There are really no illegal guns, as long as you have the proper paperwork and are not a convicted felon, or not a felon who has had their rights restored to own weapons.

Machine guns, mortars, silencers and such are still legal as long as you have the class 3 license and have done all the paperwork.

Sawed off shotguns and pistols with the serial numbers ground off is probably what they are talking about but like Legion says it all depends on your local laws.

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Edit:

The above link gives this as illegal:

* Fully automatic machine guns
* Gun with an obliterated serial number
* Gun not detectable by a walk-through metal detector
* Shotgun with a barrel length less than 18 inches, or an overall length less than 26 inches
* Rifle with a barrel length less than 16 inches, or an overall length less than 26 inches
* Silencer
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Much of the above is pure bull crap. A fully automatic machine gun is legal with a class 3 license, as is a silencer. There are no commercially made guns that will go through a metal detector without triggering the alarm.

The serial number issue is correct, as are the sawed off barrels on both rifles and shotguns. Guess 50% is a good ratio for the gun haters these days.

Joe
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Last edited by Joeaksa; 05-24-2007 at 07:38 AM..
Old 05-24-2007, 07:34 AM
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