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[Hadda]

Can you get these in Canada? Restricted or non? Is there a database I can search so that I can quit asking dumb questions about firearms classification?

 

[enefgee]

The G3 and any variant is prohib - there's a list on the RCMP firearms site.

 

[Shrapnel]

There is a sniper variant that is not prohibited I believe...

 

[Ar180shooter]

There is a sniper variant that is not prohibited I believe...

If you're referring to the PSG-1, it is also prohib.

What's the FRT number for the one that's not prohibited?

 

[enefgee]

They're all prohib to my knowledge, and if not listed they would be prohib as soon as they landed in the lab - the RCMP will never allow any HK91 variant to be anything but prohib

 

[Andurp]

Prohibited.

If our laws banned named firearms only, these rifles would be legal to import and own as the PTR-91 is not named as a prohibited firearm, nor are most modern civilian AK variants in the US, as well as a few FAL variants (DSA Arms.)

However, our laws ban named prohibs, and any rifle that is mechanically the same, named variant or not. If this was not the case, we could be importing $400 AK's from China, as long as they were named the "Fuzzy kitten 7.62" and not the Type 56 AK. Wouldn't that be nice, huh?

Bull? Absolutely. Write your MP and join our firearms orgs and maybe this'll change one day. I've always wanted an HK roller gun.

 

[mstoetz1]

done

 

[dk223]

that #### in alberta? shot and killed 2 mounties with an hk roller rifle a while back at his farm so to them that rifle is evil incarnate.

 

[Andurp]

that #### in alberta? shot and killed 2 mounties with an hk roller rifle a while back at his farm so to them that rifle is evil incarnate.

It was four mounties he killed with his HK-91, and this happened back in 2005, long after the HK roller guns were banned by C-68 in 1995. Gun control works so well, doesn't it? As for the RCMP thinking the rifle is evil incarnate, if the attitudes of the bureaucrats and high ranking officers in the RCMP are any indication, they think all guns are evil incarnate. I'd hope they'd look at impartially, but considering they said the GSG-5 is a variant of the MP5, I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

 

[Robbs]

The RCMP stretch the word "variant" far and wide. A variant can mean anything mechanically or cosmetically similar, like both use plastic components. Purposely vague to make sure the net can catch as much as possible. The intent is to prohibit as much as possible and make it survive well into the future.