Calico M100

[aiwa]

Where's the exception?

"The firearm of the design commonly known as the American 180 Auto Carbine, and any variant or modified version of it, including the AM-180 Auto Carbine and the Illinois Arms Company Model 180 Auto Carbine."

 

[cyclone]

I was referring to the semi-automatic versions, like the American SAR 180/275. I was pretty sure - though not 100% - that, like the AR-180B, the model featured on:

http://www.brasscatchers.com/am180/accessor/sar180.html

would be okay. Comments are welcome; haranguing not so much...

 

[Matt_P]

That is bulls**t. The rimfire model was in no way easily adapted to fire full auto.

just what I read man... I don't have any experience with the things

 

[johnone]

THE 180 you speak about was not difficult to convert perhaps that helped them make up their mind.
BTW the original 180s were manufactured in Yugoslavia, offered in SA pr FA and you could have it in .22lr as well as .22mag
I have played with the ones made in Yugo, much better quality than the US made versions.... But they are FUN.

Might still have some Yugo advertising around....
John

 

[aiwa]

I was pretty sure - though not 100% - that, like the AR-180B, the model featured on: would be okay.

Why? ..surely not just because it's semi auto? Many of the prohib FA firearms have equally prohib semi-auto versions.

 

[Canuck223]

THE 180 you speak about was not difficult to convert perhaps that helped them make up their mind.
BTW the original 180s were manufactured in Yugoslavia, offered in SA pr FA and you could have it in .22lr as well as .22mag
I have played with the ones made in Yugo, much better quality than the US made versions.... But they are FUN.

Might still have some Yugo advertising around....
John

In reading some US gun boards, they had mentioned that the origional was a better build, but I thought it was made in Austria. Is this just a common mistake, or a "go-around" to allow Cold War era imports?

 

[Armament]

Krinker's are better

 

[cyclone]

THE 180 you speak about was not difficult to convert perhaps that helped them make up their mind.
BTW the original 180s were manufactured in Yugoslavia, offered in SA pr FA and you could have it in .22lr as well as .22mag

I think the Yugo to which you refer was the MGV-176. I'm inclined to agree with my buddy Maxim when he states that the Yugo was most likely a (non-authorized) clone of the American 180 - much like many Chinese firearms are Russian-style, but are produced without license.

aiwa, seeing as how the website said that the semi's are custom-produced, I was figuring that they probably differed sufficiently from the firearms mentioned on the "banned" list (my name for it, not the 'official' moniker'). I have nothing but intuition to back-up this assertion, and it is indeed something I'd want verified before ordering one.

Quick question - I know the CFC 'tolerates' most firearms that the BATF has officially signed-off on as being semi-automatic and not easily converted; does anyone here know of any exceptions to this?

 

[aiwa]

aiwa, seeing as how the website said that the semi's are custom-produced, I was figuring that they probably differed sufficiently from the firearms mentioned on the "banned" list (my name for it, not the 'official' moniker'). I have nothing but intuition to back-up this assertion, and it is indeed something I'd want verified before ordering one.

Quick question - I know the CFC 'tolerates' most firearms that the BATF has officially signed-off on as being semi-automatic and not easily converted; does anyone here know of any exceptions to this?

Dude - you need to go here:http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/factsheets/r&p_e.asp and have a bit of a read. Stuff gets banned because it merely looks the same as other stuff. Forget 'ease of conversion to FA' as being a criteria for prohibition. Replace it with something more simple like 'looks bad' or 'kitten-slayer'.

 

[mp5k]

bought one brand new back in the day $399 if i remember right, sold it to a friend who turned it in when they became prohibited(by name), it was a very unique weapon,always got a lot of attention, but it never worked that well. good accuracy but poor reliability. it got a little better after about 15 bricks through it but the magazines were the problem, they would chip the vanes & the tension would vary, rare to get through a mag without 1 or 2 stoppages. i got my 1st 10/22 and sold the calico, no comparison at all. buy a 10/22 instead & forget your fantasy.