Cheapest (class III) machine guns presently?

[CleverNickname]

Almost all transferable machine gun owners (me included) would be elated at the ability to buy more machine guns. Barring a lottery win or some unknown wealthy relative dying and leaving me millions, I'm almost certainly not going to be able to afford any more at the current prices. But if 922(o) ever went away, the two I own would quickly become at least five or six.

 

[Nick5182]

Most of you guys are really lucky to live in a state that allows class III. I can't own anything class III here. A fake suppressor is the closest I can get.

 

[ijosef]

What about an original Thompson M1921A? If you just multiply your budget by a figure of ten, you could get one.

Seriously, the prison where I work had a bunch of old Thompsons (six or seven) that were used for tower duty "back in the day," as well as a BAR. They were pretty beat up, but they were able to sell them several years ago for a nice chunk of change - enough to buy all new shotguns and DPMS AR-15s all around and still have some left over. They kept the BAR and the Thompson that was in the best condition - it's now in a case in the Warden's office.

 

[MatthewVanitas]

Surprised nobody has mentioned the Stemple yet. Basically a modular SMG made in the 2000s on old registered S&W 76-type receivers. They've made various ways you can kit it out into different formats.

I've seen these run as low as $5K.

http://www.brpguns.com/stg.htm

The MACs are undoubtedly cheaper, but in the <$6K (cheaper-than-Uzi) realm the Stemples definitely need to be mentioned.


If you glance around Machine Gun Price Guide (http://machinegunpriceguide.com/), you might run across a few other odd NFA full-auto that run under the price of an Uzi.

 

[CleverNickname]

Stemples win the ugly prize too.