.22cal. Tracer ammo

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Saw a video on YouTube with a guy firing .22 tracers. They were made by a
company called "Piney mountain".Are these legal in Canada or no? Does anyone import piney mountain ammo up here?
 
All tracer/incendiary ammo is prohibited in Canada.

From the CBSA website:

"Note that tracer, armour-piercing and similar military cartridges are prohibited under Canadian law."
 
I was under the impression that tracer rounds were legal, but impossible to get approved.

Too much legislation...

Appropriate gun laws would take up a single A size sheet of paper, IMO.
 
they are not illegal, per se, but will not be approved for various reasons. I made a post in the ammo section about this (not sure if it is a sticky)
 
I don't know what kind of crap is on the CBSA website but they are legal. Look up the definition of safety cartridges, and the only thing excluded is incendiary ammunition

The overlords at NARCAN just wont let you import them
 
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I don't know what kind of crap is on the CBSA website but they are legal. Look up the definition of safety cartridges, and the only thing excluded is incendiary ammunition

The overlords at NARCAN just wont let you import them
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Rules re: tracers

There seems to be various discussions about the legality of tracer ammo in Canada.

The simple answer is that they are not legal to sell, buy, import or posess.

However, these rules appear to be generally ignored by NRCAN, et al., evidenced by the fact that much of the ammo in Canada is not authorized, i.e. Imperial ammo is not on the authorized list. There is no mention of grandfathering in the regs.

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/minerals-metals/explosives/4118

Authorization is the process by which an explosive substance or explosive article, as defined in the Explosives Act and Regulations, is declared authorized by the Chief Inspector, at which time it becomes legal to manufacture, sell, possess or use that explosive or explosive article in Canada or import it into Canada; only after approval is the item added to the list of authorized explosives. As part of this process, the explosive substances or explosive articles are classified in accordance with the Explosives Regulations. Only an explosive substance or explosive article under the care and control of the Department of National Defence is exempt from authorization.

3.1 Products Not Authorized in Canada
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- ammunition that includes a tracer, an incendiary composition, a high explosive or other similar military-type ammunition;
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http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/reg...crc-c-599.html

“safety cartridge” means a cartridge for any shotgun, gun, rifle, pistol, revolver and industrial gun the case of which can be extracted after firing and that is so closed as to prevent any explosion in one cartridge being communicated to another cartridge but does not include tracer, incendiary, high explosive or other similar military type cartridges; (cartouche de sûreté);
Please note that these rules are not the firearms act or criminal code, which we are generally more familiar with and do not mention tracers.
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Hopefully, they will change their position on tracers, as they recently did with frangible ammo.

Also, notwithstanding the above, to store tracers would require a magazine license since they are not "safety cartridges", and only they have a special exemption from the storage regs.
 
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