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To be legal for civil sales, an automatic weapon in the US must have been manufactured and NFA registered prior to the passage of the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. Very few (if any) M4s were made available on the civil market by this time.

Military service members are bound by the exact same laws as any other member of the populace when it comes to purchasing personal firearms - there are no special privileges granted to military service members on these matters.

If they were able to get approved for and purchase a pre-NFA full auto AR-15 lower receiver, they could purchase an upper, carbine buffer tube, and collapsible stock and make into M4 configuration. But again, there are no privileges granted to military service members for purchasing personal firearms which aren't granted to the rest of the general public.

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