Glen wrote:
At 10:10 PM 10/23/2005, graywolf wrote:
Owning or possessing an UZI is specifically against the law in
Michigan. That even applies to the semi-automatic models. Does show
how politicians' minds work doesn't it?
I'm not sure if it's been changed since 9/11, but in West Virginia, you
used to be able to own fully automatic firearms. I think you had to have
an expensive federal permit to do so, but it wasn't illegal. A few years
ago, they (I think it was the feds) prohibited the sales of any new
automatic weapons to the general public. People could keep the automatic
weapons that had already entered the market, and could even buy and sell
used weapons. They could even give them as Christmas gifts, I was told!
They just couldn't get any new weapons. So as far as I know, if I wanted
to pay enough money, and go through all the background checks, I could
still legally purchase and own a used automatic weapon in the state of
West Virginia.
Then again, I really don't know what I would do with one. I suppose I
could rent it to Paul Stenquist for his next bank shoot. :)
How does the motion picture industry handle this sort of thing? What if
a large movie studio wanted to film a scene in Michigan, involving
automatic weapons?
There's an entire section of Federal law that addresses movie use of
such weapons and replicas thereof.
It's rare that actual auto weapons are used, anyhow. The replica
industry that supplies movie studios have all manner of fakes, that look
and act like the real thing in front of the cameras, and post-processing
does a lot of the work...
Very well covered and tightly controlled.
keith
take care,
Glen
