Colt Canada rifles to the public?

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The company has plans – if all goes well – to introduce sometime this summer two types of firearms to the Canadian commercial market.

One rifle will be a commercial version of the C7A2 and will have a 20 inch barrel, Matt Kirkpatrick, commercial sales co-ordinator for Colt Canada, told#Defence Watch#at the CANSEC 2014 military and security trade show.

The other will be a commercial version of the C8A3 carbine and will have a 15.8 inch barrel.

The guns will be semi-automatic and will be considered restricted firearms under Canadian law.

Sample rifles were submitted to the RCMP for examination and approval and a FRT has been approved. Colt Canada, however, is still waiting on various approvals and licenses from the U.S. government.

The rifles would be made to the same specifications as those provided to the Canadian Forces. But instead of 37 test rounds being fired through each military rifle, 17 will be fired through the commercial versions, said Kirkpatrick.

The production run on the guns will be in lots of 1,000 rifles. They will be marked as Diemaco rifles.

And what will the cost be?

“We’ve got an idea but we’re not there yet,” Kirkpatrick (photo below) told#Defence Watch.


He is hoping to have the guns on the market sometime this summer.

The company expects a market for the product as many police officers and military personnel have inquired about acquiring their own versions of Colt products for sport shooting and practice.
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Ah, so not surplus. I had been hoping they were announcing the sale of the surplus semi-auto, or in a perfect world CA, guns along with the BHPs.
 
Sounds good.

I wonder how long they had these 1000 semi only diemaco rifles...

Sounds like a police order that never went through.
 
Oh yessss. Wonder if these will come with furniture and cadex gear? Expect the market for used Elcans to dry up!


Plus: They will be marked as Diemaco rifles!
 
Why Diemaco and not Colt?

Just curious.

And it's a good thing in general that a big defense contractor will be marketing their rifles to citizens. I expect Wendy will be having a whole litter of kittens.
 
As long as it's not hideously marked up, I will be getting a C7A2 for purely nostalgic reasons.

...Actually, I might even if it IS marked up.

Just take my money already.
 
Harper must have agreed to the change. Colt selling Canadian made rifles to the public was banned by the Chrétien Gang when they gave Diemaco to Colt, as I recall.
 
This is Awesome news, These will be sold out before most people even hear of them. I would love to pick one up. Sounds like they revived the Diemco name as their new Canadian Civilian brand. Something tells me this is to avoid confusion by having the rifles noticeably marked different then the Mil/LE rifles.

I wonder what happened with the rumor that Colt Canada was going to release a Limited, Canadian Armed Forces edition available only to current and Former Members of the CAF?
 
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If it was a police order, wouldn't they be select fire, not semi-auto?
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According to the questionable folks at Wikipedia, the 2011 RCMP procurement was for SA only C8s.

The big question here is: Will they be Weaver flat-tops or Picatinny like on the C7CT / C8CT?

...But, it's not like a true gun-nut wouldn't just work with whatever anyway. A C79 would work either way.
 
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