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Are these prohibited? If so how does a store in Canada sell them ( unpinned) ? What is the proper course of action for someone who might of just wasted the money on them?

All hypothetically speaking of course.
 
Not at all. Rim Fire baby. No limit on magazine capacity.

There's a crap load of dealer links at the top of this webpage. I'd start hunting around in there. I looked quickly and found these. Not all of them specifically for the 10/22 but you get the idea.

http://www.theammosource.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=14_212_101

Magazines designed and manufactured for use in handguns are restricted to 10 rounds.
 
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The BX-25 is prohibited because it is designated to fit the 10/22 Charger, which is a pistol. Pin it to 10 and it should be legal. Other brands aren't prohibited because they aren't specified to fit the Charger.
 
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Unless the marketing has changed, because Ruger markets this magazine for use in the Charger pistol, it is required to be limited to 10 rounds.
 
Lol the only people that will get you amazingly enough is your friendly neighborhood Fudd at your local range... again we are our own worst enemy.

Been through this experience myself with Promags with the cover removed and with black Butler creeks.

No one else will care... but your milage may vary ;-)
 
MonkeyNutz said:
Okay, say all marking are off the magazine and you cannot tell what brand it is. Can they get you?
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How you plan to get the BX25 into canada would be the better question... I for one, am not willing to smuggle a prohibited firearm accessory across the border. They yield the same punishment as prohib. firearms :)


Ruger has been approached on many occasions to repackage the BX25 for Cdn markets. Unfortunately being such a sliver of Rugers market, we'll never see that favour.
 
There are quite a few BX25's already in the country (got here before the 10 round rule got enforced). The few I've seen have been pinned after the fact so only hold 10 rounds...which effectively kills them for resale.
 
I sent an email to ruger inquiring about this very thing about a year ago.

"We do not believe that merely changing the packaging to omit that the BX-25 is compatible with the Charger Pistol will resolve the issue; if all we had to do was change the packaging, we would have done it by now. Our Legal Dept is still addressing this issue. They have reviewed the regulations very carefully, researched the case law, and have been working with our Canadian distributors to understand how we might be able to make the BX-25 magazines available available to our customers there. We understand your frustration and remain modestly hopeful that we may eventually be able to make the BX-25 magazines available to 10/22 fans in Canada."

Also,

Here are just a few of the search results for "bx25"

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...highlight=bx25
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...highlight=bx25
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...highlight=bx25
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...highlight=bx25
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...highlight=bx25
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...highlight=bx25
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...highlight=bx25
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...highlight=bx25
 
Wow. I guess I was way off. Totally thought it was a mag for the rifle.

Does the BX 25 fit into a 10/22 rifle? Or is it specifically designed for the pistol?
 
OneTweezey said:
Wow. I guess I was way off. Totally thought it was a mag for the rifle.

Does the BX 25 fit into a 10/22 rifle? Or is it specifically designed for the pistol?
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The Charger pistol is the exact same action as a 10/22, in a 'sorta' pistol stock. It uses the same mags as the 10/22.
In the eyes of the Law, Once a Pistol, Always a Pistol, meaning that if a Charger is stripped down and rebuilt as a rifle, it is still Restricted, same as has happened to XP-100 pistol actions rebuilt into rifles.

Since the BX mags are advertised as 'for the 10/22 and the Charger', they become Handgun magazines. Thus they need to be pinned to 10 to be legal. Same stupidity for the Smith and Wesson AR lookalike magazines. the makers advertised them as being for the pistol version as well as the rifle.

Stupid as hell, but since when did Laws have to pass a common sense test.
End result, Canadians get boned.


Cheers
Trev
 
So then technically you should be able to stick a butler creek 25 rnd mag in the 10/22 charger and the only reason its not prohib is because its advertised only as a magazine for the rifle only?
 
OneTweezey said:
So then technically you should be able to stick a butler creek 25 rnd mag in the 10/22 charger and the only reason its not prohib is because its advertised only as a magazine for the rifle only?
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Correct...it is a rifle mag that happens to work in the pistol...
 
That is hilariously stupid. You can't have this simply because it's advertised that it fits in a pistol. However you can have 25 other types that are dimensionally identical, have the same capacity or larger and will also fit in a pistol (but nobody said it does. wink wink).

I guess you just have to laugh at how dumb some of our laws are.
 
OneTweezey said:
That is hilariously stupid. You can't have this simply because it's advertised that it fits in a pistol. However you can have 25 other types that are dimensionally identical, have the same capacity or larger and will also fit in a pistol (but nobody said it does. wink wink).

I guess you just have to laugh at how dumb some of our laws are.
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No different then ar15 mags needing to be pinned to 5 rounds but the pistol lar15 mags are 10 rounds and fit in an ar15 rifle. Or some 40s&w pistol mags that hold 15 rounds of 9mm
 
Yup I totally agree. They all have the same loop hole I suppose.

As long as a pistol mag doesn't say it was designed to fit in a rifle or vice versa in the case of the 10/22 rifle/pistol mags, there's nothing stating you can't use them in a firearm that the mag was not advertised to function with. i.e. 10rnd pistol mags used in a rifle.

"The maximum permitted capacity of a magazine is determined by the kind of firearm it is designed or manufactured for use in and not the kind of firearm it might actually be used in. As a consequence, the maximum permitted capacity remains the same regardless of which firearm it might be used in. "

Man I'm learning all kinds of usefulness today. I was scared to use a 10rnd pistol mag in a rifle but unless I'm interpreting this wrong there's nothing wrong with that...
 
Same reason guys are able to use Beowulf mags in their AR's and run 16 rounds of .223 out of them (and why BW mags are so expensive).
 
OneTweezey said:
So then technically you should be able to stick a butler creek 25 rnd mag in the 10/22 charger and the only reason its not prohib is because its advertised only as a magazine for the rifle only?
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Brordo said:
Correct...it is a rifle mag that happens to work in the pistol...
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That is NOT correct... the instant you stick a 25 shot 10/22 mag into your restricted Charger pistol it becomes PROHIBITED... make sure that your Charger mags are either 10 shot mags or "pinned" to 10 shots, BEFORE they are inserted into the mag well... or at least that you are all ALONE at the range.
 
You might want to check on that...Dlask just went through this by offering up the Colt M4 30 round mags (in .22LR) for their HK416 pistol (also .22LR)...they were told no problem.
 
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