By now, you’ve surely seen the video of Kid Rock blasting away at cases of Bud Light because they put the imagine of a transgender person on the can – a can not even available to the public. I’m not commenting on Kid Rock’s attempt at social commentary. My question is, assuming that the video was shot(ha!) in the United States, is the gun being used illegal? It appears to my untrained eye to be a fully automatic weapon. He pulls the trigger one time and multiple rounds are fired. Isn’t that illegal?
We don’t even know if it was his gun.
Yep, there are a number of ranges where you can “rent” automatic weapons to fire like this.
Illegal - who cares. Tasteless - for sure.
You mean like this?
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Apparently the OP cares. This is Factual Questions. Whether something is legal is a factual matter. Whether it’s tasteless is not.
Full-auto rifles are not illegal to own. A good friend of mine has a full-auto M-16. I’ve shot it a few times, and once (just for fun) emptied a 30 round magazine with a single squeeze of the trigger. Just to say I did it. 
It’s the funnest way to turn money into noise.
Yea, you can buy one. But the prices are crazy, because there is a fixed supply.
Piggybacking onto this thread to ask if I’m the only one who, for several years, heard the name Kid Rock, and assumed that he was a gangsta rapper?
In fact, I still have to veer away from the assumption when I hear the name.
Owing to legislation signed by Ronald Reagan.
I believe that Kid Rock may just have crazy money. But why buy when you can rent? I’d say the answer to the OP in this instance is yes, it was likley a legal firearm. Still in bad taste.
Posting a link to an accidental shooting in response to a question about the legality of particular firearms is inappropriate for FQ. Please keep all answers factual and on-topic.
Opinions about firearms are off-topic for FQ. Again, please keep all answers factual and on-topic.
There are other forums and other threads where responses like this may be posted. Please post appropriately.
That’s what he’s hoping you’ll think…
This is the first and only place I have ever heard of this.
Also not commenting on his incompetence as a shooter. His aim seems to be really poor.
As someone who claims to be an all-American gun supporter, he sur doesn’t seem to be very good with guns!
And that was with the help of someone off-screen with a shotgun.
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The appropriate way to not comment on something off-topic is to, ahem, not comment on it. How good a shooter he is is completely irrelevant to the legality of the weapon.
If there is nothing further to say on the topic of a thread, it is permissible to allow the thread to simply die of old age.
Thank you all for your responses. I thought that a fully automatic weapon was illegal in civilian hands. Ignorance fought.
Under their own state/district laws, it is illegal in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia to own a machine gun, regardless of it being legally registered with the federal government.