I had an incident at my last shooting session where I was shooting my Ruger P345D .45ACP Pistol and the slide jammed in the back position. When I got home on closer look on disassembly I found a bulge in the barrel. Looks like I got lucky because that last round felt like a hot load. Anyway long story short I need to get the barrel replaced and the pistol looked at. IS this a job for a local gun smith or do I have to send it back to Ruger somehow to get it looked at. IF so how do I do something like that without going foul of the RCMP, not looking to break any laws here. Any advice is appreciated. (Yes I did a search first)
Anyone ever had to get a Ruger Pistol repaired
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Snapshots out of Quebec is the authorized Ruger repair center in Canada. Their reputations seems to be a little hit and miss, but I think part of that is getting parts from the USA up to Canada. I had to order a part for my Redhawk a few years ago, and their service was prompt and courteous in my case, but I've read a few complaints about slow service with repairs.
Check with the store you bought your pistol from. I have a mkiii that i bought and after firing 200 or so rounds through it, I thought I felt a bulge in the barrel. Because it was within a month of my purchase i just brought it back to the dealer to show them. They just took the barrel out of one of their demo/parts/rental guns, check the fit and under an hour I had a barrel that looks close to new and did not even cost me anything in gun smithing work. Best dealer in Canada.
The store will usually do this for you. You can send the barrel back on its own without breaking any laws, if necessary. It's not the serialized part so you should be fine to do it without worry, as far as I'm aware. Double check that, of course, before you actually follow through as I'm not an official spokesperson from the RCMP. 
