Vermont has no law restricting machine guns, except in the hunting context.¹ However, in 2018, the state enacted a limited ban on possession of certain “bump-fire stocks”² if they are designed to be attached to a semiautomatic firearm and intended to increase the rate of fire achievable with the firearm to that of a fully automatic firearm.³

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, 1986.⁴

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

1. See Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 10, § 4704.[↩]
2. See 2017 VT S 55, Sec. 9. A “bump-fire stock” is defined to mean”a butt stock designed to be attached to a semiautomatic firearm and intended to increase the rate of fire achievable with the firearm to that of a fully automatic firearm by using the energy from the recoil of the firearm to generate a reciprocating action that facilitates the repeated activation of the trigger. Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13, § 4022(a).[↩]
3. Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13, § 4022.[↩]
4. 18 U.S.C. § 922(o); 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d).[↩]