>>>Are they?
>>>Several stores just recently voluntarily stopped selling some models.
>>>They were not required to.
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>Tommy guns and the like were banned in the US in 1935, all automatic weapons since 1986. Apart from those few specimens grandfathered in, you haven't been able to buy an automatic weapon in the US for over 30 years.
>
>Maybe you're thinking of bump stocks? If so then the Trump administration is implementing a total ban on those, with no disagreement I can see from any quarter. Even the demonized NRA is on record supporting a ban through the Obama administration that twice declared bump stocks to be legal.
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>>>In any case, anytime something can do harm and can't possibly do any good, banning it should be the default.
>>>The burden is on the person who wants civilians to be able to buy them.
>>>That burden can't possibly be met.
>
>For automatic weapons? That one was sorted decades ago.

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http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/28/news/companies/dicks-weapon-ban/index.html