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Posted: 4/5/2004 1:45:08 PM EDT

Ok, a friend of mine who normally doesn't know shit about firearms said to me today that military machineguns, ala the M-2 and M-240, can not be made in the USA due to some law. For SOME reason I swear I've heard this before, but I don't know the validity of it...someone help me out?

Posted: 4/5/2004 1:48:35 PM EDT

[#1]

Um...no.

Posted: 4/5/2004 1:48:43 PM EDT

[#2]

WRONG, if he thinks he knows something, he's probably talking about the '86 FOPA provision that seals the MG transferable database and therefore forbids the manufacture of machineguns THAT WILL GO INTO CIVILIAN HANDS.

Posted: 4/5/2004 1:51:04 PM EDT

[#3]

He's full of it.

The ban on post '86 manufacture, along with just about every other gun control law, has a complete exemption for .mil and LEO types.

However the M249 and M240 are made by FN, and I am not sure they have a US plant. So these might be made outside the country for that reason.

The M2 is made by SACO, most definitely in the USA.

Posted: 4/5/2004 2:11:25 PM EDT

[#4]

Domestic production of small arms is in fact required (can't recall the DoD mechanism; by law, contract or decree)

Thats why Beretta and FN (and now H&K) have built plants here in the States.

Posted: 4/5/2004 2:16:15 PM EDT

[#5]

That's what I thought.

Thanks a lot guys.

Posted: 4/5/2004 2:35:13 PM EDT

[#6]

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However the M249 and M240 are made by FN, and I am not sure they have a US plant. So these might be made outside the country for that reason.

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Its the other way around, they have to be made in the USA. FN makes M16A2s, M240 and M249 in Columbia SC.

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