Almost 7,000 Lee Enfield. 22 trainers to be melted?? Or saved?

I would love to have one of these :( Is there really no org in Canada that could meet the requirements to buy these from the UK?
 
Commercial companies cannot buy but these rifles, plainly stated in the video. Only a branch of a foreign Government or sanctioned entity can, that is why they are appealing to the US CMP which is mandated by the US Government.
 
JP said:
Commercial companies cannot buy but these rifles, plainly stated in the video. Only a branch of a foreign Government or sanctioned entity can, that is why they are appealing to the US CMP which is mandated by the US Government.
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Maybe the Trudeau Liberals will buy them for us....
 
Thegoose said:
i wonder if the canadian cadets program might? thats where i learned to shoot
anyone know a contact?
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I believe all or most of the 22 cal, C7 rifles were pulled from the armories and sent back to Depot a couple of decades back.

Someone in the Lower Mainland of BC, claimed that their son/daughter had developed seriously over maximum levels of lead in their blood, because of poor ventilation systems in the indoor target ranges.

The C7 rifles were replaced by air rifles.

Likely someone has a lot more information on this than I do and it would be nice if they chimed in.
 
Tex Critter said:
About a million years ago, when I was an Army Cadet I achieved DCRA Marksman, Sharpshooter & Expert classifications with that rifle. Still have the crests......somewhere.
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Same here, Captain of our rifle team. These were great rifles. I believe the Cadets used the No7's, they were full wood, unlike the one in video (like No.4, not N0.3 - but I'm sure most reading this knows this). Every LE trainer my Squadron had came with transit case. We sure put a lot of rounds through those beauties.

Not sure what happened to them once Cadets switched to air rifles. Would be a shame if ours were destroyed.

I'm pretty sure Bloke on the Range is from UK. If I were a betting man I'd be kissing those rifles good-bye, even if you could find a buyer. Shame.
 
The majority of the Canadian Cno7s were converted to drill purpose rifles by pinning. I know of a museum that was even directed to return one they had on inventory for conversion. They were able to convert the rifle to a different stock code that did not get recalled.
 
DCRA could do it because the price would be very reasonable. All they would need is finance
Allen Lever sold a lot of these back in the day. I think they were from New Zealand, he had the Webley 455 revolvers Webley 38sw and the 38sw Enfield revolvers from there.
The revolvers had pot metal pressed clip on rear sights to qualify for export as sporting pistols to Canada
The 455's were $50.00 because they were exc++ and the 38sw 's were $20.00
I still have my 455 and a 1941 RAF marked Enfield with hammer in the holster
He got 20 new holsters with them
 
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