Mythbusters proves Walter White's boobytrap works

[teknocholer]

@Mister44

… about 8 month wait for a full ATF background check to own.

As I remember it, Walter White took a less formal path to acquiring his.

[GilbertWham]

That looks air-cooled to me. Vickers were water cooled, but they’re a LOT bigger.
ETA: whaddaya know, there is a water cooled variant.

[Mister44]

1. He is a fictional character.

2. Yes, criminals don’t follow the rules.

[OtherMichael]

Get on fleek, grampaw!

[paxsimius]

There’s always PanAm. Oh, wait…

[Abaronofsky]

Or Eastern…

[Donald_Petersen]

Or, for that matter, The Only Way To Fly™

[anon8420928]

@Ryuthrowsstuff

IIRC you need to be a federally licensed fire arms dealer in order to own an automatic weapon of any sort.

This is not correct. An FFL must have a separate Class 3 license to deal in FFA-restricted items, but civilians may own short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles, grenade launchers, vertical grips, suppressors, and fully automatic weapons, so long as the purchase is made legally with the proper tax stamp.

These stamps are SBR (Short-barreled Rifle), AOW (Any Other Weapon), Suppressor, and Full Auto variants, and all cost $200 and involve a background check from the BATFE.

Full auto weapons must have been manufactured and registered as full auto weapons in civilian ownership prior to 1986. This makes full auto weapons very expensive, as there can only ever be fewer eligible for civilian purchase.

For example, a full auto Thompson Submachine Gun runs right around $25k these days, plus the stamps and dealer fees.

But you can own one. The restrictions to police departments and military units apply to new full auto weapons.

ETA: Ninja’d 5 hrs ago by @Mister44

@Mister44

The two laws you need to know about are NFA act of 38 and FOPA of 86. NFA made all full auto guns made to be on a national registry with a $200 tax. This also include suppressors (aka silencers) and short barreled rifles and shot guns. In 1986 the democrats tried to add a “poison pill” to the FOPA bill that would close the NFA registry on machine guns. It still passed, so that means any legal machine gun a civilian can own had to have been registered pre-1986 (with a few exceptions such as WWII and other historical finds being grandfathered in later).

[Ryuthrowsstuff]

Well thanks for the details sir!

[anon8420928]

You bet, here’s one more thing.

SubGuns.net has classified listings for NFA-licensed full auto weapons. You can browse the ads here.

[billstewart]

The Mythbusters always say not to try the things they do at home. In this case? Fine by me.

[enso]

@Donald_Petersen

But… but it is available for civilians to buy and own? That seems horrifically imprudent.

America, fuck yeah.

[dculberson]

And the car that the mythbusters used turned up in an area junkyard a few months back:

Was this junkyard 1976 Cadillac used in 'Breaking Bad' or 'Mythbusters'?

[L_Mariachi]

@Donald_Petersen

even Lynyrd Skynyrd sang against the evils of the Saturday Night Special.

Are you sure that wasn’t .38 Special?

[Donald_Petersen]

Different Van Zant

[anon33466019]

Not disputing anything you said, and not implying there weren’t… Liberties in the fictional nature of the show, but…

[anon33466019]

That’s some Real 'murican bacon. (Tastes of powder and sadness)

[L_Mariachi]

I realize Mythbusters long ago abandoned the conceit that they’re debunking or proving urban legends, but there’s nothing really implausible about this rig. The only unbelievable part of the scene was that the only bad guy that didn’t get instakilled by the M60 just conveniently happened to be the one that Jesse wanted to exact personal revenge on.

A “Thanks, Mr. White” might have been in order too, but y’know, kids these days.

[enso]

@L_Mariachi

A “Thanks, Mr. White” might have been in order too, but y’know, kids these days.

inorite?

[gregmcph]

Spoiler: Everything works out just dandy for him.