The federal government, for the last 90 years, has waged a pretty successful campaign on limiting the flow of automatic weapons inside the us. There's a path to legally having a machine gun in this country, but it is sort of onerous and expensive. And then there's a way to have an illegal machine gun inThis country, and it's a little shady, but pretty cheap,. But i wouldn't say that's just a little shady. It's like, really shady. So people essentially are taking these devices that, again, they don't look like they're that scare, you know, under the federal government These are machine guns, and they're mailing em off and envelopes
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This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Richard Sima and Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram
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