New here from the USA

[R4 fan]

An "R4 fan"; are you ex-South African military by any chance?

I'm not, but good guess, most people think it refers to something to do with NASCAR/car racing.

I've had that screen name for as long as I can remember, the Galil used to be my favorite, and always dreamed of the South African versions. I'm not military and haven't been out of the US.

 

[R4 fan]

Please post pictures of all the firearms we can't own because they are scary!

I don't know if I have photos of all my stuff, but here's a new AK I recently got. In NJ we can't have a removable muzzle device or flash hider, no folding stocks, bayonet lugs or magazines over 15 rounds.

So here's my new Krebs custom AK-103K (7.62x39) with a cut down barrel, permanently attached brake and bayonet lug ground off. The bolt carrier is silver because I just had the bolt/bolt carrier/piston and gas tube coated in Nickel Boron. I'm waiting for my firing pin, and hammer/trigger to come back from the same treatment.



Here's a milled receiver Bulgarian Arsenal SA-M7 with no bayonet lug and a pinned muzzle nut. It had blonde furniture, but I swapped it out for original Bulgarian military plastic stocks with a bakelite handguard.

 

[scianna54]

what's up with those firing pins?

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=649440

Are those legal to export? I thought you can get anything in the US?

 

[R4 fan]

what's up with those firing pins?

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=649440

Are those legal to export? I thought you can get anything in the US?

We can, but for some reason the AK-74 retaining pins I can't find. It's just a pin to hold the firing pin in place. I ordered an AK-74 bolt kit from K-Var/Arsenal and they have the wrong pins included in the bolt kit. They mixed up AK-47 parts with AK-74 parts. I sent them an e-mail to their customer service, but haven't gotten a response.

The only place I found them is in Canada.

I could use a larger pin, a nail, a piece of wire coat hanger (or anything that would fit) and sand/file it to fit, but would rather have the original sized pin.

 

[pres717]

Welcome R4 fan!

Glad to have you here, and welcome to Canada. Our gun laws suck, but Canada is full of many great people... I'm sure you'll meet many of them here.

 

[torontogungal]

Thanks! I'm from New Jersey, which has it's own problems with gun laws. We can own some cool stuff though. I'm not sure what you guys can and can't have compared to the US.

If "0" is highly restricted like DC and "10" is very laissez-faire like Vermont on a hypothetical firearms freedom scale then Canada would be a 5.5 and NJ would be about a 6.

From the viewpoint of gun owners our jurisdictions (Canada and New Jersey) are quite similar and we face a lot of the same problems.

Welcome aboard.

 

[R4 fan]

If "0" is highly restricted like DC and "10" is very laissez-faire like Vermont on a hypothetical firearms freedom scale then Canada would be a 5.5 and NJ would be about a 6.

From the viewpoint of gun owners our jurisdictions (Canada and New Jersey) are quite similar and we face a lot of the same problems.

Welcome aboard.

Thanks to you and everyone else who posted. Yes, I know a lot about loss of freedom. We can own a lot more than we did years ago. Now we can own just about any semi-automatic rifle as long as a couple "evil" features are removed. It's amazing actually how idiotic some of these laws are.