However they don't come in 5 or 5.5 rounds do they?
50 Bw mags things are getting stupid
- Thread starter badboybeeson
- Start date
- Status
However they don't come in 5 or 5.5 rounds do they?
This is confusing as hell for me.
I agree with what CTCS is saying, it is legal until we have written from CFC about the .50 Beo Mag.
My opinion on this is that it is legal to sell now, but if you ask for approval from CFC, you won't get one.
Regardless, I am not taking the chance on this with my company.
I agree with what CTCS is saying, it is legal until we have written from CFC about the .50 Beo Mag.
My opinion on this is that it is legal to sell now, but if you ask for approval from CFC, you won't get one.
Regardless, I am not taking the chance on this with my company.
I am not going into this again, but it is the same reason you will be never see a 30 round pinned, crimped or blocked legal 10 round AR 15 pistol mag
they are legal but the problem here is when someone decides to call that same mag a Beowulf 50 caliber mag and pins it to fit 5 of the larger rounds instead increasing the capacity to skirt our capacity laws.
Remington makes a STANAG pattern mag for the AR 15 in .450 Bushmaster caliber, yet they made a proprietary magazine for it so it is not on the chopping block like the 50 Beo and 458 SOCOM mags which are identical to 556/223 mags
wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
i should know
i own a bunch of them
they are pinned to 5
yes pinned, see the little pin in the picture
5 and room leftover
these original Alexander Arms beowulf mag are 10 round capacity pinned to 5, same size as a full size 30 round pmag
Why dont you stop complaining and go buy some and shoot bro!
Last edited:
Regarding the legality of using AA mags - I don't think it's an issue if you're shooting 50 Beo from the mag, it becomes an issue when you stuff a nearly identical to 223 mag pinned to 5x 50 Beo cartridges full of 223.
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/bulletins/bus-ent/20110323-72-eng.htm
This bulletin is intended to provide general information only. For legal references, please refer to the Firearms Act, the Criminal Code and Regulations. Provincial, territorial and municipal laws, regulations and policies may also apply.
Some of you hanging it all out there on the RCMP's interpretation of law put in a bulletin may be in for a rude awakening one day....
3. (1) Any cartridge magazine
(a) that is capable of containing more than five cartridges of the type for which the magazine was originally designed and that is designed or manufactured for use in
(i) a semi-automatic handgun that is not commonly available in Canada,
(ii) a semi-automatic firearm other than a semi-automatic handgun,
What makes you think someone, somewhere along the path won't deem all AR magazine origins to be .223/5.56?
Food for thought (or gas on the fire) - whichever you prefer
This bulletin is intended to provide general information only. For legal references, please refer to the Firearms Act, the Criminal Code and Regulations. Provincial, territorial and municipal laws, regulations and policies may also apply.
Some of you hanging it all out there on the RCMP's interpretation of law put in a bulletin may be in for a rude awakening one day....
3. (1) Any cartridge magazine
(a) that is capable of containing more than five cartridges of the type for which the magazine was originally designed and that is designed or manufactured for use in
(i) a semi-automatic handgun that is not commonly available in Canada,
(ii) a semi-automatic firearm other than a semi-automatic handgun,
What makes you think someone, somewhere along the path won't deem all AR magazine origins to be .223/5.56?
Food for thought (or gas on the fire) - whichever you prefer
Last edited:
That's fine, magazines don't need approval. And it wouldn't be a pinned or repurposed mag like is in question now.
Based on the logic being applied there can never be a 5 round magazine for any larger calibre? No that's dumb.
Based on the logic being applied there can never be a 5 round magazine for any larger calibre? No that's dumb.
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/bulletins/bus-ent/20110323-72-eng.htm
This bulletin is intended to provide general information only. For legal references, please refer to the Firearms Act, the Criminal Code and Regulations. Provincial, territorial and municipal laws, regulations and policies may also apply.
Some of you hanging it all out there on the RCMP's interpretation of law put in a bulletin may be in for a rude awakening one day....
3. (1) Any cartridge magazine
(a) that is capable of containing more than five cartridges of the type for which the magazine was originally designed and that is designed or manufactured for use in
(i) a semi-automatic handgun that is not commonly available in Canada,
(ii) a semi-automatic firearm other than a semi-automatic handgun,
What makes you think someone, somewhere along the path won't deem all AR magazine origins to be .223/5.56?
Food for thought (or gas on the fire) - whichever you prefer
The RCMP firearms lab has already made this conclusion. But like I said earlier, I doubt they really want to push the issue. The collateral damage to the Firearm laws in this country would be enough to force a major re-write of the Criminal Code. That'd be quite a gamble for all parties.
Throughout the reading of this whole thread my brain kept asking me "why would anyone send a magazine to the RCMP for approval?". It was news to me. I'm a relative newbie and fully acknowledge at all times that I could be wrong, but as far as I know as long as a mag doesn't fit the criteria for being a prohibited device, it's an entirely uncontrolled device. You may as well send your washer and dryer in to the RCMP for approval.
A mag is either legal or it isn't, there is no approval process that I'm aware of.
Exactly. The problem is its businesses that basically want a green light from the RCMP to say it's fine. In them going over and above they are getting an answer they don't want to hear.
Does it follow the rules? Yes? Legal.
Not anymore. See R. v. Cancade. This is why seeking firearms law reform via Canada's far-left, anti-gun courts finally became damn near hopeless and political reform became the focus. Alas, not much improvement has been achieved give the dog's breakfast that is C-42 and the disdain with which the Harper government is treating us gun owners.
Yes there is no law says a magzine needs an classification,
But Most here fear a punishment thru process(not me, I just bought tons of c-product), or dealers don't want to get into trouble with the rcmp etc,
When too many people fear one group of unelected bureaucrats, then these bureaucrats have too much power.
Simple choices here really apart from talking about it to death.
Stand your ground, buy more, more owners more pressure on the rcmp to do nothing.
Or do nothing wait and see, hand them in when the RCMP asks. Your chioce.
But Most here fear a punishment thru process(not me, I just bought tons of c-product), or dealers don't want to get into trouble with the rcmp etc,
When too many people fear one group of unelected bureaucrats, then these bureaucrats have too much power.
Simple choices here really apart from talking about it to death.
Stand your ground, buy more, more owners more pressure on the rcmp to do nothing.
Or do nothing wait and see, hand them in when the RCMP asks. Your chioce.
Last edited:
NEA arms produces AR types lowers for as low as $70 some times. Can they not a run a batch for 50 Beuwulf Pistols and we can be done with this non sense for once and forever. 100 people buy those lower receivers and to make it widely available.
Does that work?
Does that work?
- Status
