So, when do we get machine guns? At a nationwide level, probably never. At least unless coil guns, or some other technically-not-a-firearm invention, create facts on the ground faster than Congress can ban them.
At a state level, the picture is more nuanced. The likeliest outcome is that machine guns remain banned for the foreseeable future. But some version of option 3 — machine guns are allowed within narrow limits in a handful of states — is plausible if SCOTUS reinterprets the Commerce Clause. We’ll see. It’s a good example of how gun rights advances can come from events that aren’t really gun-related.
— Open Source Defense in Dude, where’s my machine gun?
The Machine-Gun ban will never be overturned,,, there are too many present owners of these Firearms who would lose significant sums of money on their expensive acquisitions.
The ‘present owners’ may not have a say in the matter, thanks to the recent ‘Bruen Decision’, son.
Let’s see what unfolds from the Bruen Decision ,, it’s not the blanket “let’s get back to 1791” dictate you might have hoped for my man.
There are a few hundred thousand registered MGs, many in large collections (i.e. the number of owners is likely about 1/1000th of registered voters). None are destitute, obviously, but few if any are billionaires or federal inner circle either.