8.5 Grizzly and pistol grip... It will be a blast...
- Thread starter caramel
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What about putting pistol grip with folding stock on 8'5 ". Legal? Nonrestricted?
I have this version on 870 with 18" barrel.
Andrew
If overall length is 26" and up when the stock is folded, you're good to go. But i doubt that would be the case with an 8.5 barrel.
Thats the guideline.
26" OAL when folded.
This could become an interesting make work project for the CFC.
Put the pistol grip stock on, get it registered as restricted and shoot it at the club. Come hunting/hiking season, put the full stock on, get it de-registered and take it to the woods.
Repeat as required.
I suppose you'd want to get something in writing first confirming that they won't take six months to de-register the gun!
Put the pistol grip stock on, get it registered as restricted and shoot it at the club. Come hunting/hiking season, put the full stock on, get it de-registered and take it to the woods.
Repeat as required.
I suppose you'd want to get something in writing first confirming that they won't take six months to de-register the gun!
Hmmm.....
Once the Non-restricted registry is gone, I wonder what happens the minute a restricted shotgun is re-assembled with the full stock. Though you might not be able to use a gun after attaching the pistol grip until the CFC sends you notice of its change in status as restricted, with no registration is required for the gun in its non-restricted form would you have to offically de-restrict the shotgun before putting the full stock on and taking it into the woods?
Once the Non-restricted registry is gone, I wonder what happens the minute a restricted shotgun is re-assembled with the full stock. Though you might not be able to use a gun after attaching the pistol grip until the CFC sends you notice of its change in status as restricted, with no registration is required for the gun in its non-restricted form would you have to offically de-restrict the shotgun before putting the full stock on and taking it into the woods?
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- Montréal, Québec
Well I guess they'd consider it still restricted because you haven't notified them of the switch.
twistedbrilliance
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I know a RCMP officer in charge of the FRT system. He lives in the country and has lots of guns. He took his stock off of his black powder encore rifle and had it registered as a pistol and took it on a pistol hunting trip down south. When he came back he tried to switch it back to a rifle status and have it re-registered as non restricted and was told once a pistol always a pistol...
So make sure if you register your firearm as restricted make sure they put it in as a restricted rifle and not switch it to pistol status.
So make sure if you register your firearm as restricted make sure they put it in as a restricted rifle and not switch it to pistol status.
I heard it too here
BUT
If its true, I'm sure it can be fought. If a gun meets all the criterias to be non-restricted, there's no reason, not even written in the law, for it to remain restricted.
Just like prohibited handguns that are switched back to restricted by putting in the right barrel length.
Personnally, I would demand a written answer from the RCMP on this. I'm willing to bet a dollar they can't claim such a thing in an official letter. They'd need the law to back them up, and there is nothing in the FA that states anything to the effect that once restricted = always restricted.
alpha niner
Regular
so you have 30 day to change the classification from when exactly: day of order or day of possession of firearm?
Day of modification.
Where do people get that there is a requirement to register a non-res shotgun as restricted for simply owning a pistol grip thats not even installed on it?? Hell don't wait for the pistol grip, just call the CFO and tell him you have a piece of wood laying around somewhere and that since it could be stapled to the gun as a pistol grip, your shotgun should become restricted...
FFS...
You all are glad the LGR is soon dead, and now you're just finding excuses based on fear of an innexistant law to re-register guns that might at some point become restricted if you modified them...geezus krist. We really are our worst ennemy.
