What types of guns are legal or illegal?
That is not an easy question to answer. The reply below, is long and involved. There are more than 23,000 laws in the United States alone that regulate firearm ownership, sales, transfer, transportation and use. Each nation around the world, also has tens of thousands of laws, regulations and ordinances regarding firearms and their legality. Assuming that you are speaking more specifically about firearms in the United States, I have a few things to say here that might help you get a better grasp upon what is legal or illegal and heavily regulated. Each of the fifty states in the United States has implemented their own laws that regulate gun possession, transportation and sales. In some states, machine guns are legal and in others, they are not legal. Machine guns are fully automatic and can fire continuously with the trigger held in. In some states, silencers, that are designed to muffle the sound of a firearm are perfectly legal, but in other states, they have been banned. In most sta
