DEWAT Firearms Thread

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Hello guys, can we see some of your DEWAT firearms?!
####-n-click, #### no click, neither but with removable magazine, or totally welded solid?
They’re all great in our eyes, feel free to share them!
I have one on the way, will be sharing soon.
Anyone else got a deact and wish to share please do so here!
 
JubbeiSamuro said:
Hello guys, can we see some of your DEWAT firearms?!
####-n-click, #### no click, neither but with removable magazine, or totally welded solid?
They’re all great in our eyes, feel free to share them!
I have one on the way, will be sharing soon.
Anyone else got a deact and wish to share please do so here!
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I’m kinda new to the hobby, sorry if this is... weird?
And no I hate Liberals, don’t know what the second comment was about?
 
Well since there are some people with opinions, let's have a debate about Deactivated Firearms.

I have been a fierce defender of real steel for decades. I come by my credentials honestly, and would truly wish to have certain pieces for my collection which are because of other people's opinions not available.

There are going to be people who cannot collect firearms, by licencing restraints or social circumstances, but who still want to participate. The hobby of Deactivated Firearms comes in at this point. That said, I object to willfully destroying a valuable piece just for the sake of having a (whatever). It is a dilemma, even though I've done it myself.
 
Think they are great for display. A lot of firearms are works of art. I have several 12.3 and I know sooner or later they are going to have to be deactivated. So instead of sitting in a safe and cant shoot them I would be able to openly display them and not shoot them
 
Hi

Contemplating dewat in the future, as I cant own some rifles i.e. the SLR ( fn fal )

is it better than seeing the confiscated firearm crushed ?

cheers J
 
britinbc said:
Hi

Contemplating dewat in the future, as I cant own some rifles i.e. the SLR ( fn fal )

is it better than seeing the confiscated firearm crushed ?

cheers J
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I just bought two fal rifles minus the upper receiver. Registration is changed to receiver/frame only and you only have to wait for laws to change (lol) to import an upper from the USA.

No laws broken and you can have 85% of one
 
Yes absolutely agree. A dewat is a dewat. I see dewat firearms as interesting pieces of history. The thread wasn't an endorsement for destroying live guns; that's a different debate. If a dewat isn't your thing that's great too. If you don't agree with a threads' topic you should consider moving on to another one, not slagging it.
 
Thank some of you, my thoughts the same. No firearms should ever be deactivated, and the thought every time I see one is “sigh, would’ve been nice if she was kept in her original state”. But I also see a lot of tastefully done, old spec dewat LMGs and HMGs, and appreciate who ever did the deactivation for them instead of sending them to the smelter. I don’t encourage deactivating and sorry if this isn’t your thing. I do still enjoy seeing nicely done samples though, because they’re usually awesome firearms that most of us law abiding PAL/RPAL holders can no longer possess.
 
Here's a question for you; If you have a firearm you need to get deactivated, that requires a lot of cutting and welding of various parts.

So....what if you removed all the parts so you had a "prohib receiver" in one hand, and a "parts kit" in the other?

Can you deactivate the receiver, and then put the unmolested parts back onto it? Is it still considered deactivated? Does a stripped receiver have to be completely destroyed to qualify as deactivated?
 
If the thing is currently registered, it isn't going to be deleted from the registry as deactivated unless the butchery is done to current spec.
 
tiriaq said:
If the thing is currently registered, it isn't going to be deleted from the registry as deactivated unless the butchery is done to current spec.
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And that is the shame of it. If current prohibited could be deactivated so they still moved it would lessen (but not eliminate) some of the pain.
 
bogusiii said:
And that is the shame of it. If current prohibited could be deactivated so they still moved it would lessen (but not eliminate) some of the pain.
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One thing that I've wondered, and I know what the common consensus is.

Once a gun is welded up and deregistered, is there any actual law saying that you can't convert it to #### and click?

I've never actually seen the law saying that you can't.
 
STG-44 said:
One thing that I've wondered, and I know what the common consensus is.

Once a gun is welded up and deregistered, is there any actual law saying that you can't convert it to #### and click?

I've never actually seen the law saying that you can't.
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Don't know if altering an approved dewat would be a legal problem.

If the work was done by someone approved by the RCMP for deactivations, it could be a pig of a job.
 
STG-44 said:
One thing that I've wondered, and I know what the common consensus is.

Once a gun is welded up and deregistered, is there any actual law saying that you can't convert it to #### and click?

I've never actually seen the law saying that you can't.
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Interesting question. If it stopped being a gun and is in fact a slag heap, what harm can a few Dremel wheel cleanups possibly do? Though I agree with tiriaq, once the new 'guidelines' are applied there's not much a Dremel wheel can do to save it. I may be wrong but Collector's Source includes wording (or used to at least) that it is illegal to alter the dewats they sell. I wonder what they base that on.
 
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