Ok I’ll play... I’m gonna keep it as simple as I can. If you have another gun or idea in mind let me know.
Mike from Canmore buys another AR-15 from joe averagecgner.... mike doesn’t want this gun as it makes his canoe too heavy so he calls up the queens cowboys. The RCMP kindly inform mike that he can deactivate this gun, they know mike and he don’t sell guns and they don’t want him having ANOTHER boating accident. he’s really causing a back log with all his water sports....
Mike is a cheap fellow... his solution is simple. He strips the gun and cuts the lower in half at the magazine well with an angle grinder.
Now it comes down to opinions. Mine is that this meets the letter of the law as deactivated. The answer to your question is known only to the RCMP and they tend to change theirs from time to time. I’d like to hear yours.
My opinion is pretty simple. You call them up, tell them you have an "XYZ receiver" you want to deactivate and ask
what the legal procedure is for receiver deactivation. The rest of the parts that were once attached to said receiver were sold to Mike from Canmore, for all they need to care - because those parts are
not controlled and not considered "firearms".
This is true for any type (class) of firearm, not only prohibs. If you strip a NR Lee Enfield receiver, sell or re-purpose the other parts and want to "deactivate" the receiver itself afterwards, who says you can't? It's been done plenty of times, actually. I even remember reading old CGN posts back in the day saying that the CFO would be satisfied with a picture of the receiver being cut or rendered inoperable, as long as the serial number was visible and matched.
The point is that a DEWAT can no longer be a functional firearm, and
the receiver is the firearm. Therefore, a receiver which is no longer functional is no longer a firearm, as per the law of the land. If you put or attach other "not a firearm" attachments to it afterwards, it's still not a firearm. The only way for it to re-become a firearm is if you somehow make the receiver functional again - with or without attaching any other parts to it. By functional, we mean able to chamber, fire and cycle the action (if the other parts were to be reattached to it).
In any case, I have no idea where all the nervous nellies get their pamphlet gospel from (actually I do - the Liberal gun grabbers' wish list), but all you really need to worry about is the law. No one is advocating breaking the law, but at the same time no one is above the law -- not even the "boogeyman" CFO / RCMP gun lab some on here fear so much, lol!
(this is why there will never be an NRA-like org in this country... way too many beta gun owners scared to even jiggle the boat a tiny bit by asking the right questions, lol)
Known as a parts kit. Available for sale from CGN sponsors
Exacto mundo.
The parts kit argument was my next one, for those still clinging to the "legal necessity" of turning the whole gun from butt pad to muzzle into one solid piece of scrap metal.
