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I have now seen more than one story in The N&O concerning Blackwater Worldwide and its allegedly illegal automatic weapons. You have stated that, generally, only police and the military may own fully automatic weapons.Federal law permits private individuals to own certain fully automatic weapons upon payment of the $200 transfer tax required by the National Firearms Act of 1938, completion of a federal Form 4 application and after several qualifying factors are met.As you noted, federal law does, however, ban the transfer of automatic weapons manufactured after 1986 except upon the authority of the government.The question regarding some of the Blackwater firearms then lies in their date of manufacture. With the basic design of the AK47 unchanged since 1947, does it really matter in more than a technical sense that some of their rifles may be a bit too new?Gregory D. McGannRaleigh
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