In 2024, Mississippi enacted a law criminalizing the manufacture, possession, or use of “machine gun conversion devices” like auto sears, which convert a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun.¹ Apart from this law, Mississippi does not regulate machine guns or automatic weapons.

Federal law requires machine guns to be registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), and generally prohibits the transfer or possession of machine guns manufactured after May 19, 1986.²

 See our Machine Guns policy summary for a comprehensive discussion of this issue. 

1. Miss. Code § 97-37-39.[↩]
2. 18 U.S.C. § 922(o); 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d).[↩]