Bullpup Legallity

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Ok I've read the CBSA act that states bullpups are illegal and then I search on here and people are saying only some bullpups are illegal.

My question. SKS bullpup kits, especially the one www.sgworks.com is rolling out soon, will it be legal in Canada. I called and they said they would ship to Canada but I don't wantthe hassle of it getting sent back.

Other option is get it ship to a place in Maine where I pick up packages to save on shipping but I don't wanna break the law and get nailed for it.

SKS Bullpup's are they legal in Canada
 
If the bullpup is an integral non-removable component of a functioning firearm, then its legal. If you can remove the bullpup device and the firearm will still function, it is illegal. Basically, if you can add the bullpup device on to an existing firearm, its illegal.
 
promac said:
If the bullpup is an integral non-removable component of a functioning firearm, then its legal. If you can remove the bullpup device and the firearm will still function, it is illegal. Basically, if you can add the bullpup device on to an existing firearm, its illegal.
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And again, the "bullpup" is not something that you just touch. It's not a device. (And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck.) It is a concept. It is a design where the trigger assembly is closer to the end of the barrel than the bolt assembly is. A concept can not be illegal, as a prohibition on a concept is unenforceable. What is illegal is the stock of a firearm that is designed in the bullpup configuration where by if you remove the stock you can still get the kinetic-energy delivery system to fire. If the stock is integral with the receiver and you can only remove the stock via destruction of the firearm, (as in the case of the Norinco Type 95, for example), it is perfectly legal.
 
Clear as mud huh? Obviously Wendy in her supreme wisdom as the firearm expert chosen by Allen Rock to screw with gun owners came up with that goofy decision...by comparison, a pistol grip on a shotgun does almost the same thing in terms of OAL but doesn't move the trigger group back or the bolt forward. Also glock carbine kits could be considered bullpups if you look at the concepts...no rhyme or reason to the prohibition, like all of canada's gun laws.
 
This bullpup question never ends,
and it goes on and on, my friends.
Some people started asking it, not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue asking it forever just because...

No offense for your question, none in my response. You weren't the first to ask, you won't be the last. :)
 
What is the logic behind this prohibition? Is it because of the ability to reduce the length of a rifle? This is rather stupid because one can get a PS90 or Type97 if one was really committed to what his/her "evil" plan:rolleyes:
 
nickia said:
What is the logic behind this prohibition? Is it because of the ability to reduce the length of a rifle? This is rather stupid because one can get a PS90 or Type97 if one was really committed to what his/her "evil" plan:rolleyes:
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Firearms laws don't use logic. Don't try to figure out why, that's just how it is.


Basically, I think they want to prohibited bullpups. However, because the law makers didn't know #### all about guns, they worded the law wrong and any new bullpup is pretty much legal.
 
Are bullpups directly outlined as being illegal in the Criminal Code? I don't remember seeing them mentioned. As far as I am concerned, you can make any weapon a bullpup so long as the overall length is no less than 26" and the barrel length is no less than 18.5".

That said, which nation(s) on Earth have open firearm ownership policies? I'm itching for a plane ticket and a change of citizenship.
 
Its not the intentions of these laws that are indecipherable, its the way it works out in the end. AR-15 restricted, tavor NOT even though it carries the bullpup tag. I mean... even then you'd think at least it'd be restricted.

Theres no consistency to it. No obvious path. They are doing it so haphazardly that in the end it doesn't even do justice to what those with power WANT. But for all that people complain about the assbackwards laws, its probably the biggest crack in its armor. Makes revision and repeal more likely than if these anti gun law makers actually had their #### together.
 
I still think that it is a ridiculous Law!

In no ways does the bullpup make the fire arm anymore dangrous.

but then again half of fire arm laws are ridiculous. I have yet to see a gun law stops a lawbreaker.
 
a "bullpup stock" is a prohibited device. It is defined as follows:

Any rifle, shotgun or carbine stock of the type known as the “bull-pup” design, being a stock that, when combined with a firearm, reduces the overall length of the firearm such that a substantial part of the reloading action or the magazine-well is located behind the trigger of the firearm when it is held in the normal firing position.

The plain reading of this seems to target after market 'bolt on' bullpup stocks which adapt a complete firearm into a bullpup (there are several of these for the Ruger 10/22 available in the US). If it meant anything else, it would have to include rifles like the nylon 66, the tavor, and virtually every semi-auto pistol on the market.
 
P*Funk said:
Its not the intentions of these laws that are indecipherable, its the way it works out in the end. AR-15 restricted, tavor NOT even though it carries the bullpup tag. I mean... even then you'd think at least it'd be restricted.

Theres no consistency to it. No obvious path. They are doing it so haphazardly that in the end it doesn't even do justice to what those with power WANT. But for all that people complain about the assbackwards laws, its probably the biggest crack in its armor. Makes revision and repeal more likely than if these anti gun law makers actually had their s**t together.
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It is very consistant for 1995, when it was written. The AR was supposed to be prohib, the tavor was not invented.
 
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