#PRE 1986 PKM MACHINE GUNS FOR SALE REGISTRATION#
It was felt by effectively doubling the cost of a machine gun and requiring registration at the discretion of local authorities that the Prohibition era scourge of crime would end. This lead to the passage of the 1934 National Firearms Act, which imposed a $200 tax on machine guns which was about what most common ones cost at the time. Most firearms enthusiasts had no use for these guns, gun culture mostly focused on hunting and perhaps small concealable revolvers and pocket semiautomatic guns for self defense, and anyway, bolt action rifles were the choice of militaries and hunters around the world and were readily available.Īll this made it easy for the government and press to vilifiy machineguns as “gangster weapons” (even though it is likely that most uses of machine guns by gangsters involved guns stolen from military or police arsenals, not private purchase). With commercial copies of the BAR like the Colt Monitor, and the Thompson submachine gun on the market, private ownership was possible but not common. It wasn’t until after WWI that shoulder fired smachine guns became commercially and technologically viable. One remained in private ownership with Roosevelt after the war and exists to this day. Two such guns were purchased and given to Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. By the time the Spanish American War rolled around, not only were belt fed machine guns available, but one could buy them directly from Colt. Later rotary crank guns like the famous Gatling gun saw far more use, and some private ownership among people who felt they needed incredible amounts of firepower.
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However, a 1722 mention of these guns is also possibly the first time the term “machine gun” was ever used. Other guns, like the flint ignited Puckle Gun promised incredible firepower for the time, but saw almost no use, with perhaps four or five ever being built. These so-called volley guns were of limited military or practical use in the days of the flintlock or percussion cap and never saw much use.
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Some of the earliest practical mass firing guns were simply rows of barrels arranged in different configurations and fired all at once.