"AR's to NR profits gained by the change, plus?

[bsand]

I believe it was due to lobbying by the DCRA to keep the restricted so veterans could own their service weapons (s-auto) and compete in service rifle competitions.

 

[Gundoggy]

I would love to have an NR AR15. My friend's ACR's are nice but AR's are so much lighter.

 

[Zeroed-In]

The RCMP response to the AR15 being restricted is because it's part of the M16 family rifle which is restricted. It's not answering any questions, it's just it's restricted because it's restricted.

One of the reason could be because the upper is interchangeable easily. Which means it's the upper that should be restricted or non-restricted with it's own serial number for example.

Making the AR15 compliant to non-restricted would be very easy. But we all know the truth is, it's an organization that wants monopoly on force, the end. There is absolutely no logic behind gun control except control and monopoly on force. The Armalite platform is used by the RCMP and the Canadian forces. Let them have it, I don't care, we have our Tavors and upcoming X95s which are better anyway.

Except the Tavor doesn't come in a large hi-power hunting calibre...

I suspect the real reason the AR family is restricted, was that back in the days it was part of the recognized scary Hollywood evil-guns that they wanted to prohibit by name. But some managed to strike up a compromise citing it is widely used in legit range sports, hence meeting half way and making it restricted.

Exactly it was needed for service rifle competition so the (DCRA IIRC) lobbying kept it from becoming prohibited like all the other scary Black Rifles of the time.

I would love to have an NR AR15. My friend's ACR's are nice but AR's are so much lighter.

That's what I had said earlier and that a larger hunting calibre (like a .308) are not available in many of these NR Black Rifles; such as an ACR or Tavor...

Thanks for all the replies everyone, however I'm not hearing anyones thoughts regarding my reason for starting this thread.
That being the income generated from increased AR rifle sales, associated AR accessories and AR training/safety shooting courses etc. that would all be made by the Canadian Firearms business community and our Canadian Government if AR's were to switch back to NR again.

Cheers D