Edit, I misspoke. While you can still purchase a machine gun it had to be registered before May 19th, 1986  according to the NFA of 1934 and falls under all the NFA laws. That is the risk when doing a video unscripted I got my dates wrong.

I touched on a few points in this video and speak about the increase in crime in America in contrast to the increase in gun laws. While we are enjoying a steady decline in violent crime in the US since the 1990s there are many states with heavy gun laws that are seeing a drastic increase despite their best efforts to encroach on freedoms. Here is a link to the article I speak about citing the decrease in violent crime in the US.

Please watch the entire video and I wholeheartedly welcome comments and debate.

By Hunter Elliott

I spent much of my youth involved with firearms and felt the call early on to the United States Marine Corps, following in my father's and his brother's footsteps. Just after high school I enlisted and felt most at home on the rifle range, where I qualified expert with several firearms and spent some time as a rifle coach to my fellow Marines. After being honorably discharged I continued teaching firearm safety, rifle and pistol marksmanship, and began teaching metallic cartridge reloading. In the late 1990s I became a life member to the National Rifle Association and worked with the Friends of the NRA. Around that time my father and I became involved with IDPA and competed together up until he passed away. I began reviewing firearms for publications in the mid 2000s and have been fortunate to make many friends in the industry. Continuing to improve my firearms skills and knowledge is a never ending journey in which we should all be committed. I am also credited as weapons master on a few independent films.

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  1. Uh…no, my brother. You couldn’t walk into a hardware store in 1986 and buy a machine gun like buying a rifle or shotgun. That was stopped in 1934.

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