Hello,
New guy here and I'm back in Mass after decades of being away.
This thread has been going on a long time and I do not see a clear answer to the question of whether you can get a Type 07 FFL 02 SOT using a home address or how to legally build a machinegun at your home in Massachusetts.
My situation is this, I build LEGAL firearms and reload my own ammunition LEGALLY at my home. I have over 30 years with the Army as a civilian and a soldier. I have shot since I was young and have competed in firearms competitions of all types and hunt. I really enjoyed machinegun competition in the Army; I was on a machinegun team and was even a machinegun team captain one year. The one thing I always wanted to do as a civilian was to compete in machinegun competitions and demonstrations around the country but simply can't afford the tens of thousands of dollars to buy just one machinegun.
For a very small fraction of the cost, I could build my own machineguns to use in a competition or demonstration and with the right amount of tender loving care and attention to detail could build my own machineguns with sufficient accuracy to shoot competitively. For example, I don't need an expensive Krieghoff or pricey customized Beretta to be competitive in Sporting Clays. I can and have scored perfect scores at difficult stations while the competitors sporting expensive shotguns did not do as well. Needless to say, the shotgun I bought and personally tuned to my taste cost me no more than one thousand dollars total.
With that said, I do not want to be in the firearms sales business. I just want to build machineguns at my home like an M60, MG42, or other type and use them to compete in competitions around the country or simply provide a demonstration to the public. I would also like to make videos, when or if I can, regarding the historical qualification standards that were used to certify machinegun crews and actually perform the qualification on video and explain the various techniques used by the crew in the video. There is also great opportunity to make videos regarding the capabilities of each machinegun type. Then again, I'm the kind of guy who owns my own M109A3 Shop Van and use it to explain to the public how soldiers like me built nuclear weapons in the back of them during the Cold War.
So, if anyone can help me figure out what I need to do to live my dream of building machineguns LEGALLY in my Massachusetts home to use for LEGAL educational and competitive purposes, I would be greatly appreciative. Quite frankly, I just can't afford to buy a commercial machinegun to fulfill my dream but I could without a doubt build one myself and get a great deal of pleasure out of building one.
Thank you for your time and consideration on this matter! Best wishes to all
Taurus454