.32 rimfire availability in Canada?

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Is .32 rimfire ammunition at all available in Canada, and if so, who sells them? I'd love to pick up an affordable antique revolver but I haven't been able to find any info about where I might be able to find the ammunition.

Is there another round that could safely work in the old guns?

Thanks, and I apologize if it's been asked before, I used the search function to no avail.
 
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Search for "hilti" or "ramset" and you should find instructions on how to make .32 rimfire rounds by drilling the back out of .32 Short Colt brass (Winchester still makes it and there's lots around), some .312 (?) ball and a .27 hilti/ramset rimfire round for construction nail guns. The .27 doesn't need to be offset, and the weak (green) ones need no added powder for a great lot of cheap fun. About $11 / 100 here at Rona or Home Depot, for the Ramset rounds, and the threads and web info are plentiful and detailed.
 
I've seen that kind of ammo at gun shows, running around 100-120 bucks for a box...i have an old 32 rimfire short rifle, to buy ammo by the round its usally 2.50-3.00 each
 
HC C Collections located in France sells reloading kits and brass for them I bought it off them but its not cheap at all. Works is a pain to load the ammo kind of risky in some ways with seating the primer after you load the round ie last step instead of first. It uses .22 acorn blanks which you can find at a few gun stores.
 
Shrapnel said:
Why is there no manufacturer of that kind of ammo?? There are millions of antique guns still out there!
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The company that was doing it was contracted to make other ammo for more money so it came down to higher volume of ammo more money they stopped maklng 32rf and no one has started it since.
 
Shrapnel said:
Why is there no manufacturer of that kind of ammo?? There are millions of antique guns still out there!
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It's called the gun-game...1st we sell 'em the arm for big $$ and provide cheap ammo. Then we slow down production on the ammo and have the factory retool for our new cartridge for, you guessed it, our new gun that will cost big $$. Then we stop making the old stuff all together in essence making someone a very expensive paper weight. :p
 
plinker 777 said:
It's called the gun-game...1st we sell 'em the arm for big $$ and provide cheap ammo. Then we slow down production on the ammo and have the factory retool for our new cartridge for, you guessed it, our new gun that will cost big $$. Then we stop making the old stuff all together in essence making someone a very expensive paper weight. :p
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Oh BS. It was simply supply and demand. In the period starting about 1930 demand for this ammo had dropped off and gradually the ammo companies stopped making it due to lack of sales. Guns were considered tools more than toys back then and people like using better quality tools if they are given the choice. Would you rather use an electric drill or a hand cranked drill? For years you couldn't hadly give away a .32 rimfire revolver because nobody wanted them.
 
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