Does the AI Enfield use an M14 magazine?

I've got 3 coming, coming, coming some day. Wolverine has a shipment coming in, I wouldn't be surprised if they're all spoken for before they arrive.

Incidentally I'm getting a big bag of 10-rd stripper clips for the M14, what a combo.
 
Just received them, they pop right in, no modifying nothing.

Not sure how it will affect operation, will see next weekend. They might still be better to get a hole drilled in them, but far as I can tell it's not completely necessary.
 
Luckyorwhat said:
Just received them, they pop right in, no modifying nothing.

Not sure how it will affect operation, will see next weekend. They might still be better to get a hole drilled in them, but far as I can tell it's not completely necessary.
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If you modify them in anyway you have made a prohibited device. Anyway you don't need to modify them.
 
HeadDamage said:
If you modify them in anyway you have made a prohibited device.
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Based on what section of the act?

What if I punch a hole in the base plate? what about drilling some cartridge counting holes in the back or the side of the mag, would that make it prohibited?

I think the definition of "manufacture" was pretty much decided by the precedent set with barrels.

Winchester/Dlask/Remington can _manufacture_ a barrel 8", 12" 14" whatever (as long as it isn't a _pistol_ barrel under 4+ allittlebit). If I take a hacksaw to my Remington I'm modifying the barrel, not manufacturing a barrel.

I don't see anything about modifying an existing mag to fit a different firearm as being illegal.
 
The M-14 pattern magazine latches at two points, the AIA magazine at one. The bodies are essentially the same dimensions. If you alter the AIA magazine, adding a hole for the second latching point, you have created a magazine intended for use in the M-14 type rifle. Holes could be drilled all over the magazine which would be irrelevant to latching into a M-14, but that little square hole just down from the front edge is a functional part of an M-14 magazine. Sure, it will still work in the AIA, but the modification was made with the intent of causing the magazine to fit an autoloading centrefire rifle.
The legal 10 shot magazine in a centrefire semi auto situations exist because the magazines involved were made for other firearms, and work without alteration. If an unaltered AIA magazine will function in a M-14, the legality should be the same as exists with Beretta, Ruger, Marlin and AR-15s.
I'm surprised that no one has reported yet on whether an unaltered AIA magazine will function in an M-14.
 
tiriaq said:
If you alter the AIA magazine, adding a hole for the second latching point, you have created a magazine intended for use in the M-14 type rifle.
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On the face of it, your assertion seems sensible * ; but I've been unable to find anywhere in the act, regulations or precedents, where your belief is given the force of law.

If you can actually point to a section of the act, or a regulation or precedent, please do so.


* sensible, when discussing the Canadian firearms act is a relative and nebulous term.
 
Lol.

I don't think it's illegal either, but unless fuction is impaired I'll probably leave them be until the ####ing CFC bothers to reply to me information requests. I'd surely want a gov't autographed piece of paper saying they're legit when officer friendly handles them.


Unregistered I'm out of cartridges, and the rifle's now buried as I clean from a basement flood. But it's pretty secure in there.


And hell yea what's taking AIA so long making 20-rounders?
 
Are you expecting to find a section that says "you cannot make a small square hole in the upper foreward edge of a magazine designed for an AIA rifle"?
You would be taking an object that was not manufactured as a magazine for an autoloading firearm, and deliberately modifying/altering/remanufacturing it so that it becomes a 10 shot magazine for an autoloading firearm. That could be construed as manufacturing a prohibited device, which would be an offence without an appropriate business licence. That is in the Act.
If you are sure that you are correct, modify an AIA magazine in this manner and send it to the RCMP for their opinion.
 
now this is just in theory and as i do not own either typoe of mags or rifles is of no cost to me.

could you not ask either marstar or norinco to manufacture the mags with a slighty over sized CIRCLE hole in a similer location on the AIA mags that in turn would fit a new "pin" on the AIA rifle??
 
SignGuy said:
now this is just in theory and as i do not own either typoe of mags or rifles is of no cost to me.

could you not ask either marstar or norinco to manufacture the mags with a slighty over sized CIRCLE hole in a similer location on the AIA mags that in turn would fit a new "pin" on the AIA rifle??
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I doubt that would fit into the Marstar wanting to "cover their ass" theory we discussed earlier. Right on their website Marstar has a disclaimer about the magazine not being able to function in any other rifle.
 
So here's the part that is bugging me the most. Where the heck do you buy these things other than at Marstar? I can't find any reference to them being sold anywhere on the internet other than Marstar and one place in Australia. I'd like to get one to keep in the US.
 
Second question, how much of the time that has been spent on this board and others, as well as in pool rooms and basements, debating on the best way to have a higher capacity magazine for a particular rifle, could have been spent getting the stupid ban lifted. Then the point becomes moot.
 
powmia56 said:
Second question, how much of the time that has been spent on this board and others, as well as in pool rooms and basements, debating on the best way to have a higher capacity magazine for a particular rifle, could have been spent getting the stupid ban lifted. Then the point becomes moot.
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Sure, you just have to talk Stephane Dion and his party into it. Good luck with that.
 
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