GSG Drum Mag Recall?

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The closed thread from BL is ridiculous. Why not leave it open and show the whole conversation?
The text in red is fishy to me. Looks like a response to an inquiry.........
 
Confusing indeed. It apears that the only flaw with the mags is that another shop got the mags in before the shop who had the exclusive? Wouldnt that be like Marstar creating a recall notice on any Norinco guns that were sold by other sources, just to shut down competition? Im not sure how BL thinks that they can dictate what people do with product purchased from their competitor even if they can get GSG to side with them.

Hopefully this will not turn into a competition of who can throw who under a bus first, we almost lost the Classic greens because of this last time. The Canadian gun owners are divided enough as it is. Some people need to grow up.
 
Ah, the rcmp interfering with the free market and businesses using government regulations to screw over their competitors.

What else is new.

Also, makes you wonder if the removal of firearm regulations would hurt some businesses enough that they would fight against it.
 
Is it just me or is this whole thing insane? Recalling a product not because it is faulty but because it was not distributed properly.
 
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This is what the deal is with Blue line GSG ect. They have an agreement that they will be the supplier for the GSG products they will bring them in sell them and sell them to dealers across Canada. They have a contract with GSG that they will do all the warrenty work ect and GSG won't sell it to anyone else in Canada directly. Now telling them to send them back to another dealer because they're not allowed to buy them from somewhere else and sell them they can't do squat. It's call price fixing if they get away with it which is illegal.

Now someone brought in the product and it's really a dealer vs dealer thing more then anything else. The RCMP lab crap is them just not liking a product the magazine was originally designed for the GSG 5 which then became the GSG 522 they have to be pinned to 10 rounds since they have a pistol version of the firearm as well. If you look at the FRT for that firearm they have with silencer with out handgun and rifle versions. They said it's an MP5 so it's a prohibited firearm because of that alone.

Now GSG went ok lets make a new product and make it for the 10/22 and SR22 so they tinkered with the design and made a new product so really it's a GSG 5 magazine more then anything else just they had to tinker with it to make it work right. Blue line just doesn't like someone selling something they have and other other dealer simply didn't want to wait for them to bring it in.

You don't need any approval from the RCMP to bring them in if you speak with the lab they will straight up tell you that you don't need anything what so ever if it's designed and manufactured for the 10/22, SR 22 or other firearm but if they say charger pistol as well then your screwed. The design and manufactured for is what matters regardless of what firearm it fits in. It's really to bad so sad to the RCMP. All GSG has to do is test it shooting with the charger pistol then put it on the box then it would be 10 round limit. They didn't do that because they were told don't make it for that stupid gun only this one.
 
The simple, basic, straight forward facts are that the law is stupid and poorly interpreted. You can wrap it up in as much fancy lawyer talk as you like but the fact is if a mag fits in a 10-22 it fits in a Charger, period.

The RCMP got away with it on the Smith MP 15-22 only because they were so new and there weren't fifty thousand of them floating around. Otherwise they would have had to cave due to practicality.

I can see where BlueLine wants to protect their investment, but it can't be at the expense of the whole freaking firearms community. This opens the door to stab alot of people in the back over the thinnest to most non-existent of technicalities.

When the '' official '' GSG drums show up we all know they'll be freaking identical to the one's being sold now, lets not pretend otherwise.

Not cool BL. There are to many reasons to list as to why this should have been handled differently with alot more consideration to the big picture and the long game.
 
+1 on trying to get a monopoly. Very sad for Canadian customers. We always get the short end of the stick.
First they blamed the exchange rate, now they blame the distributers and say our market is ten times smaller than the US so it costs more up here.
Personally canadian companies need to wake up, the internet and online sales are changing the game.
If you can't adjust your margins to match, you'll lose my business, just like many have who are cgn sponsers.
 
This is clearly a case of Blue Line being pissed off that they were not first to market with these magazines.

We have seen importers use these tactics before and it is always the end users of the products that get screwed.

Another example of an attempted monopoly.
 
Hey All,
Sure, I have no problem commenting on what has happened with a timeline.

- We were working with GSG waiting for final testing on the magazine and working on importation to Canada
- We were advised about some concerns and we were then advised not to import the magazine
- We consulted our lawyer and then GSG and GSG's engineers designed a Canadian Model based on the above
- The Canadian Model of magazine was almost ready to go and the original magazine showed up in Canada
- We then received a phone call from the RCMP asking about the arrival of these magazines when we stated we would not import them.
- We stated that we did not import them and we had no knowledge of who did or any further information about the situation
- We contacted GSG and told them about what had happened and they started looking into the situation as they were well aware of the concerns originally raised by the RCMP
- GSG then released the statement about the grey market pre-production magazines which were never intended for Canada
- From what I am aware after further consultation with several lawyers GSG decided to issue a recall on the original design magazines which had been released in Canada
- We were informed of the recall and published the information.

We are not trying to jeopardize anything currently on the Canadian market, we are trying constantly expand what is being offered while following the rules as they are set out for us. When we and GSG are advised not to do something and a third party puts that work into question, GSG was forced to act. In this case that was with a recall of the magazines.
 
It would be nice if a mod moved this to General Discussion. This is way to important to get buried in Rimfire.

Sorry BL. You're service is excellent but this is more than just a black eye on you.
 
If the "grey market'' mags were stolen and then sold it would be a different story.

Instead, GSG SOLD the mags to another importer who then distributed them to Canadians.

Seems way more like sour grapes to me. Even after reading your reply, BL.
 
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