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New Mexico has no laws regulating machine guns.

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, 1986.1

 See our Machine Guns policy summary for further information. 

  1. 18 U.S.C. § 922(o); 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d).[]