CobraGT, These stocks are NOT legal in Canada. Do not attempt to import them or you could be fined (or charged) and you will have them confiscated at your cost. If you already have one I'd suggest destroying it, as if you are caught with it you could also be charged. The "bump fire" stock is a PROHIBITED DEVICE in Canada.
You can call the CFO and ask them why they are prohibited. Unfortunately this is not my opinion but fact!
This is not a debate about "IF" we should be allow to own them or not. I can tell you what I'm saying is the truth, as dumb as it is to prohibit a stock.
~Shooter
Still waiting for you to clarify how you came by this information. Based on this post, am I assuming that you
personally spoke with the CFO, and were
personally told that this is a prohibited device? Or is this the usual "a friend of a friend said they spoke to someone who said that..." sort of stuff that I so often see floating around CGN?
Please clarify who you spoke to, and specifically what you were told, so I can follow up myself. Thanks.
I can personally tell you that I spoke with Laura (I think that was her name, anyway) at Slidefire last year, and that I was told that they were checking into the legality of the stocks in Canada before they shipped them here. After checking into it, they determined them to be legal here (specifically how they determined this, I don't know), and shipped at least one AR15 stock to Canada, which I owned for a time, before I sold it.
From what I understand, they shipped a number of them here in addition to the one I owned. Between that time and now, I have heard that they have stopped shipping them here, but I can not personally confirm this, or if this is true, why it is the case. I also cannot confirm whether or not CBSA is stopping them from crossing the border, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Finally, I wouldn't personally purchase one down there and try to import it myself, or encourage anyone else to, as I suspect these are regulated under ITAR - however, if a business down there is willing to sell it to you and ship it up, well, then, the expectation is that
they are complying with ITAR. This is why I bought mine directly from Slidefire - I wanted to make sure I wasn't violating any laws, US or Canadian.
Edited to add: I know that it doesn't directly reflect on the legality of the stock here, but for what it's worth, I just received the following in an email from Chris, the Customer Service Director at Slide Fire:
"Due to the fact that we cannot be experts on the laws of countries other than our own, we made the decision to not export outside of the US at this time. We haven’t heard any reports of our products not being legal anywhere, but decided to proceed with caution to be sure. We are working on offering our products in several other countries including Canada, but we don’t know for sure what the time frame is"
