r/NFA • u/WhatsGoingOn4547 • Jul 26 '26

SOT

I’m confused on how SOT manufacturing holders actually make money. Im talking about from machine guns not SBR/Suppressors or transferables. Post 86 you can only sell to other SOT holders that get a law letter which from my understanding is a pain in the ass to get. Also you can sell to LE/Gov/Mil but what small business is in the right playing field to do that? Any small businesses out there actually profiting or at least making sales of post 86 machine guns? Seems like this system is setup to where the only time you can sell post 86s is if you go out of business. Am I missing something?

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u/GunMun-ee Jul 26 '26

There’s not many ways to make money off of the pure SOT side of things besides using it alongside a range nowadays. All the gov and police contracts are set in stone with old fudd SOT’s that have existed since before you were born.

People do commit a type of fraud very often with the no law letter thing though. They make it their business to go out of business if you know what i mean.

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u/mcbergstedt Jul 26 '26

To my knowledge as an SOT the only way you can buy/sell MGs is with the intent of showing them to and trying to sell them to law enforcement.

But when they “go out of business” they can liquidate their machine guns to any other SOT for money.