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I know you said no belt-feds, but those are true Machine Guns, the rest that you mentioned are legally "machine guns", but technically are not - they are rifles and PC carbines or pistols capable of full auto fire.
It depends on what you want to use them for, but I have often asserted that if you are going to lug around a rifle, then get it in a rifle chambering - this goes double for full auto.
May I suggest an alternative to a full auto?
An AR lower with a binary or other fast trigger and a belt fed upper like this:
First, it will be a lot less expensive than any NFA "machine gun", even after you feed it.
Second, it will be a lot more fun.
Third, it will be more effective in SHTF.
Fourth, it will be legal more places and much easier to move across state lines.
Fifth, it can be fed by magazine or belt, and you can put a different upper on it.
Finally, if you want it to be full auto, you can just get either a full auto lower, or a full auto trigger mechanism.
There are other uppers besides the FlightLite MCR, but this is the one that I would get if I were going with the AR platform. I vacillate back and forth between this and a semi-auto belt fed like the FN M249S or larger. In many scenarios, someone with a fast trigger finger can work a semi-auto belt fed almost as effectively as a full auto.
The prices today for legal NFA full autos far outpace what you would pay for a semi-auto belt fed, even after taking into account the ammo.
It depends on what you want to use them for, but I have often asserted that if you are going to lug around a rifle, then get it in a rifle chambering - this goes double for full auto.
May I suggest an alternative to a full auto?
An AR lower with a binary or other fast trigger and a belt fed upper like this:
First, it will be a lot less expensive than any NFA "machine gun", even after you feed it.
Second, it will be a lot more fun.
Third, it will be more effective in SHTF.
Fourth, it will be legal more places and much easier to move across state lines.
Fifth, it can be fed by magazine or belt, and you can put a different upper on it.
Finally, if you want it to be full auto, you can just get either a full auto lower, or a full auto trigger mechanism.
There are other uppers besides the FlightLite MCR, but this is the one that I would get if I were going with the AR platform. I vacillate back and forth between this and a semi-auto belt fed like the FN M249S or larger. In many scenarios, someone with a fast trigger finger can work a semi-auto belt fed almost as effectively as a full auto.
The prices today for legal NFA full autos far outpace what you would pay for a semi-auto belt fed, even after taking into account the ammo.