Quote Originally Posted by Bballjamal
are full auto's even legal to sale (I don't know but I doubt they are).
No


I went to a privately owned school known as Gunsite (gunsite.com) and not even they are allowed to just "buy" full auto's. They have special permitts to maintain them for instructional purposes to teach law enforcement and military. As part of them maintaining the automatic weapons, ATF has to come on a regular basis to inspect them.

So people who posses privately owned automatic weapons did 1 of 2 things,
1) coverted the weapon to full auto
2) obtained the weapon illegally