Attention Collectors, Attention

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Baribal

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Collectors,
As many already knows, the current Firearms Marking Regulations requested by the US/UN for weapon traceability was deferred 'til December 1st, 2012 and the Federal Gvt wants to change the initial request for marking the receivers of all newly manufactured and imported firearms as follow;

Serial Number
Arm Manufacturer

This will be of very little effect on newly produced firearms, but it will more than likely deface highly valuable collector pieces and will, of course, lower the value of all the new comers.


Please make your local Member of Parliament know of your disapproval of that non-sense situation as fast as possible and before December 1st.
 
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actually after speaking with tony B a few weeks ago this WILL effect most handguns and MANY rifles and shot guns

and here is WHY

the regs say it must be marked on the FRAME or RECIEVER

while looking at my glock 17 it has the serial on the frame but NOT the manufacture (a logo is not good enogh it must SAY thier name)

look at most hundguns thier marked on the slide on semi-autos and the barrel on on revolvers

now look at some lever action rifles same thing marked on the barrel

this is poorly written and needs lots of work.......
 
Buy an old mossberg .22 rifle. Most of the old one's don't have a serial number. I have a few of them. Guns have been in Canada for 50++ years without any issues. Buy a European .22 ie Gevarm....serial number on the barrel and not on the receiver, French Law. Europe is concerned with the barrel, not the receiver. US and Canada mostly concerned with the receiver. So there should be a reasonable standard that we all can live with. It will make firearm purchases easier.
 
The receiver marking is an effect of the US 1968 Firearms Act. Before that date, most firearms were marked on the barrel. Any manufacturer exporting to the US have to stamp the receiver since then.
There is no real problem when it comes to new firearms; this can be done at the manufacture. But when it comes to older production rifles / pistols and all, then, it becomes a problem. How does the "stamping" will be performed by the importer? How esthetical will it be? How much will this add to the price of the arm?
Then, since the US have this, the older unmarked stuff is selling easily at very good price while the newly imported stuff is harder to sell because in the eyes of collectors it's about the same as Bubba's work. I think this rule is just plain useless and stupid.
 
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Baribal said:
Collectors,
As many already knows, the current Firearms Marking Regulations requested by the US/UN for weapon traceability was deferred 'til December 1st, 2012 and the Federal Gvt wants to change the initial request for marking the receivers of all newly manufactured and imported firearms as follow;

Serial Number
Arm Manufacturer

This will be of very little effect on newly produced firearms, but it will more than likely deface highly valuable collector pieces and will, of course, lower the value of all the new comers.


Please make your local Member of Parliament know of your disapproval of that non-sense situation as fast as possible and before December 1st.
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So if you import a used rifle to Canada from the USA after Dec 1, 2012, there will be UN markings on it?
 
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