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This is the second time I've found an old registration cert in a rifle butt. The other one was also found in a Win 54.
There was also a live round in there, stamped D.C.Co. (Dominion Cartridge Company), and stamped .30 SPG. with a full metal jacket bullet.
 
Crazy that the document required 'racial origin' to be recorded on it...any idea where it was originally purchased? Don't see a city/Province/State listed. I'm thinking southern USA maybe?
 
It does ask if the applicant is a British subject, which pretty much leaves the US out. Perhaps it was Kenyan, gun laws were pretty restrictive there even in the 1940s. I can't find reference to a city named Brockville outside of Canada, did Ontario have their own firearms registry in those days? I should pull the butt plate off my M-54.
 
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bassman said:
Crazy that the document required 'racial origin' to be recorded on it...any idea where it was originally purchased? Don't see a city/Province/State listed. I'm thinking southern USA maybe?
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Doubtful. Form also says "Brit. Subj" and is signed as being completed at "Brockville Police Department".
 
bassman said:
Crazy that the document required 'racial origin' to be recorded on it...any idea where it was originally purchased? Don't see a city/Province/State listed. I'm thinking southern USA maybe?
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The "Occupation" is listed as "soldier"...this was in 1944......was he home on leave?...or just not called up?...or was he in the First War and sat the second one out?

It's from Canada, he's listed as a British Subject.

Address is 192 King East Brookville Ontario

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/19...2!3m1!1s0x4ccd0f6f101fb5fb:0xe396d554fc064643

For interest here are better scans of both mentioned registrations.

 
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Boomer said:
It does ask if the applicant is a British subject, which pretty much leaves the US out. Perhaps it was Kenyan, gun laws were pretty restrictive there even in the 1940s. I can't find reference to a city named Brockville outside of Canada, did Ontario have their own firearms registry in those days? I should pull the butt plate off my M-54.
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Canada had rifle and shotgun registration during the Second War. I've seen quite a few of these around at gunshows and Cabelas Edmonton West has some on the wall in their Gun Library office.

See "1939-1944"

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/pol-leg/hist/con-eng.htm
 
Turf said:
During the second world war until after the war ended rifles and shotguns in Canada had to be registered.
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What a surprise. ;) And if you were an enemy alien living here, you had to surrender them. Found a similar certificate in the barrel of a buddy's muzzle loading shotgun, he inherited from his grandfather.

Grizz
 
Well if I was Mr. Smith I'd be good and pissed off right now I'm pretty sure when he signed that paperwork no one told him it would give out directions plus a picture of his house on the television! Land sakes alive. .. :)
 
I still have the registration paperwork from my brothers late father inlaws guns from the war years . His rifles, .22's,shotguns and of course handguns. This was in the eastern townships of Quebec. One theory I heard was that our civil defense organizations might need them or even loan them to Great Britain in the early days of the war. Just theories.
 
My great-uncle's Riverside Arms Co. 12 gauge. Certificate found in the buttstock.

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Turf said:
During the second world war until after the war ended rifles and shotguns in Canada had to be registered.
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That is correct.
Plus, nationality entered into it. Canadian was not yet a nationality, so it depended on the persons origin. British Subject was common, but Germans could not have firearms during WW2.
A family farmer neighbor, was of German descent and he had to forfeit his couple of rifles.
 
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