lots of crazy info gets passed around. And it probably comes from the fact that almost anything CAN GO in the DR..all depending on who you are and who you know, and how lucky you are...mix that in with corrupt cops...and absolutely every imaginable scenario can happen.
as far as the law...
my buddy who works in the goverment, and has a psitol permit.....got into an altercation with a guy over a parking spot. It had to do with alloted spots for his buisness some how. The other guy pulled a gun and stuck in his waist in front of him as they argued..He might have said something about its possible use...I cant remember for sure about that part.....but it was obvious that the guy was trying to intimidate my friend. Who unbelievably said
"I too have a pistol in my car, I can go get it and we can shoot it out, and i gauarantee you , you will loosse , because i am on the national pistol team"...it being unbelievable , because i dont understand how someone would wait around for all that to happen.. ha ha ha
What my buddy did do was call the police and report that the guy was "showing" his pistol. As it so happened there was a new law that had been passed only a week BEFORE!!!!! that made it illegal to show a weapon like that.....and sure enough the other guy left, but the police tracked him down and he lost his pistol. And had to go to court. I dont know how it all ended....but he was going to court to try and keep his permit and get the pistol back.
I seriously doubt machine guns are legal to civilians...seeing as rifle are not even legal to civilians.......but strangers things have happened in the DR.
bob