Private Air Force

This guy just bought 46 Hornets

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32869/this-man-owns-the-worlds-most-advanced-private-air-force-after-buying-46-f-a-18-hornets

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For the last 30 years, Don Kirlin has been flying for the airlines, working on real estate deals, setting up the world's biggest skydiving meets, and building a private air force the likes of which even he has a hard time believing is possible. Just last month, The War Zone was among the first to report that his company would be purchasing multiple squadrons worth of surplus Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornets to be used in the contractor adversary air support role here in the United States. Not only do we have all the details on that purchase, which is even more impressive than it initially seemed, but we talked at length with the entrepreneur owner of Air USA, located in Quincy, Illinois, about his company's past and what is turning into a remarkable, if not downright historic, future.

Don Kirlin imported his first foreign military jet, and L-39 Albatross, in 1994, at a time when doing so was an extremely complex and convoluted affair full of pitfalls and unknowns. Since then, he has repeated the process dozens of times over and was the first owner of a private MiG-29 Fulcrum in the United States, among a long list of other exotic flying firsts. He now holds eight licenses with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), allowing him to own military machine guns and cannons, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition to fire through them.

Wow. Actually in Australia you'd have enough trouble just trying to privately own/operate a 70 year old warbird restoration with strict modifications like weapons capability irreversibly removed before taking it out of a locked vault and damn sure nothing jet powered, let alone 4th Gen. Not saying there might not be a way but a private warbird operator can't get a Sabrejet here with all the rules, a P40 gets you an ASIO deep character investigation and a lot of questions like, before we let you fly that here are you sure there's no way a .50 cal can be fitted into this thing ever again?

And in the US you can buy Hornets. Head. Desk.

@Vanir

In the US you can buy literally anything, only dependency is what state you live in and how willing you are to fill out paperwork.