Belt Auction - If you can't own a fully automatic gun made after 1987 how come you can own this?

If you can't own a fully automatic gun made after 1987 how come you can own this?

its got a fully automatic setting http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=190479025 and can it be fully transferable and registered with the nfa?

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The MP-5 was invented before then, as i have seen them for sale before. But it does seem like an odd thing to have on Gunbroker.
This is the type of stuff that makes most of us look bad. He's not selling the weapon, he's selling a component, not legal everywhere, but is in enough places. If they restrict this stuff though, they're probably gonna try and clamp down on all mods. Really wish people could behave themselves. Btw, never used anything but the SEMI setting when I was in the ****.
It is not a firearm. It is a replacement part.
Automatics made aftr 1986 are illegal for civilian sale. Automatics made before are grandfathered meaning they remain legal as they existed and were registered before the law went into effect.
This part is not the the registered part of the gun so it can be sold. If you collect all the parts and assemble them, you are now a felon. Still, much ado about nothing. Nobody except police officers has killed anyone with a full auto weapon since 1934.
"Still, much ado about nothing. Nobody except police officers has killed anyone with a full auto weapon since 1934." *Correction* Two homicides have been committed with legal transferable Machine Guns. One was legal self defense involving a Ruger AC556 5.56 x 45mm assault rifle and the other was a murder commited by a Police officer using a MAC 11 .380 caliber submachine gun.
if it was registered before the end of 1968, it's legal, the MP5 was out for 2 years(1966) before the cut line, so this MP5 part is legal if registered before the end of 1986.