Why aren't Humvees street legal? What modifications would be needed to make one street legal?

The machine gun is no more part of the HMMWV (High Maneuverability Multi-Wheeled Vehicle is the official designation of the 'humvee') than a CB antenna is part of your average car. The reason they are not street legal is they meet NONE of the safety or emissions requirements for street legal vehicles. Converting a HMMWV to be street legal would cost more than building a brand new one, and the result would resemble a HMMWV about as much as a Hummer H1. Actually, the Hummer H1 WAS the closest they could get to a HMMWV and be street legal. No one that could afford on wanted anything that NON-luxury. That is why the Hummer H2 and H3 are not even built off the same frame as a Hummer H1.

Why don't you just drive a Hummer like a normal person would? The Hummer is the civilian version of a Humvee(mind you I mean the ORIGINAL Hummer) and it is street legal. Why would you need a Humvee anyway?

I drive a 69 Chevy P/U that don't meet those requirements either and I can get a tag. Jeeps have the same doors and seats these do and you can get a tag. Just more BS from our govt. To the guy who said why would you want one of these, Look at it dude. Why in hell would you want one., wait you are a dude right?

They don't meet safety requirements for side impact protection, they don't have proper doors.

The street legal H1 and military HMMWV are the same width

Uhhh... The military has been driving them on public roads all over America for the past 30 years or so, and I have never seen one pulled over by law enforcement for not being "street legal."

Hummer H2 Modifications

why would one need to ride an humvee to work?

they havent been entered into the national finding out for crashing/its an evident armored motor vehicle and you will in no way get it on the line/they dont permit y ou purchase the tanks and force them around the two

They are too wide. There is no modification that you could make that would make them street legal.