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      3 days ago

      In 1984, a full auto would still have been on an NFA registry. Open, rather than closed like today, but still not a simple one step sale.

      This is of course, fact checking the finer points of gun law in a movie about a time traveling robot.

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      If you find a one in a million firearms store who buys their own stock and resells out back illegally, it still is.

      Also some pawn shops, technically anything made before a certain date is an Antique and skips a lot of regulations.

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          You know the revolvers cowboys are famous for using are all pre-1898 and more than good guns, yeah? Assuming they’ve been maintained properly, that is

          Even the black powder stuff is still going to be really damn good for most peoples uses (accuracy at short to medium range is just fine), I wouldn’t assume just because it’s older or powder that it’s not a good gun