Hi Brandon,
<img src="graemlins/offtopic.gif" border="0" alt="[offtopic]" /> "Post sample" machineguns are those guns that have been manufactured after the legal ban on the manufacture of NEW machineguns for private ownership.
They can only be made, possessed or sold to or by Class 03 Dealers, Special Occupation Taxpayers (SOT) are machine gun manufacturers, Police, Military or Corporations...
"Transferables" are those machineguns that existed before the ban and can be sold to ordinary citizens provided it is not illegal to possess them where you live and you comply with all the federal and local laws. There are only about 250,000 LEGAL Transferables in the U.S. So the cost of this limited pool of weapons is quite high. As an example, It is not uncommon to see WW2 Thompsons sold for $10,000 to $15,000 dollars or more... An full auto M-16 might run anywhere from $4,000 to $6,000 or more...
If this is an area that interests you, an excellent discussion board can be found at
www.subguns.com
Caveat: I will warn you that you won't find it as pleasant an atmosphere as the Lugerforum, and the language sometimes gets pretty rough. I am not sure how they would react to someone your age asking questions, but it is the best Class 03 discussion board around.
You can learn quite a bit just by lurking there.
I don't have the time to go there often anymore, but on the occassions that I visit there I post as "JMPKS"....