Can someone please clarify magazine capacity limits please?

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From my reading on the RCMP website, what I understand is:
10 round magazines are the maximum allowable for semi-auto handguns
and
5 round magazines are the maximum for semi-auto rifles?

If this is correct,,why is that?? More to the point,,Why ONLY 5 rounds for a rifle?
I have my heart set on one of those Noveske, or Robson Arms XCR rifles,,but it seems silly to me to spend so much on one of thse beauties, when I can only jam a 5 round mag into, no? Or is it just me?

So all of the guns for sale in the buy/sell section that 'look' like they have 30 round mag in them,,actually only HOLD 5 rounds?

Damn, damn, shame.
 
mgc1970 said:
What is a 10 round "LAR mag"?,,wouldnt that be illegal to own?
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No, please do a search as this topic has been covered numerous times. LAR magazines are meant for the LAR pistols. Since pistols have a limit of 10 rounds per magazine, they are totally legal. However, the law does not state which firearms are allowed to be used in conjunction with the LAR magazine. Hence, it is perfectly fine to use it on other firearms if they just happen to fit. Hence, LAR pistol mags are not illegal to own.
 
mgc1970 said:
Excellent,,,thanks very much for the clarification!
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Why the limits?

It was an over reaction by the Molruney PC government after the shooting at L'ecole Polytechnique in 1989.

Just a side note: CENTRE FIRE semi auto rifles and shotguns are limited to 5 rounds. Rim fire rifles can have 30 round magazines and drum mags. Or the exception noted in other posts.
 
As to why the limit, it might take someone with more grey hair then I to get the real story. But i believe part of the change was from the shooting that took place in montreal Que. Man walks into a class with gun seperates girls and guys....boom boom boom. Terrible tragedy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre

so to prevent a similar tradegy from ever happening again, you get tighter gun laws.... because you know level headed law abiding people are dangerous.

and of course.... people with bad intentions follow the LAW!
 
Saafire said:
As to why the limit, it might take someone with more grey hair then I to get the real story. But i believe part of the change was from the shooting that took place in montreal Que. Man walks into a class with gun seperates girls and guys....boom boom boom. Terrible tragedy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre

so to prevent a similar tradegy from ever happening again, you get tighter gun laws.... because you know level headed law abiding people are dangerous.

and of course.... people with bad intentions follow the LAW!
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Overreactions follow tragedy. It's not unprecedented, and it's certainly not going away. It's a comfort to victims, thinking that these changes have made things safer, and if they ever fail, it might be justified as not enough being done.

I don't want to play blame-the-victims, because I'm not sure if I would have done something different, but if even one of those fifty men who were ordered to leave the lecture hall took some initiative... The problem isn't the lawmakers, who are basically prostituting for votes to further their career, it's with the people, who are complacent to evil-doers, and expect to be protected, instead of protecting each other.
 
Hang on, so since 10 round LAR mags work in ar's (knew that for a long time just keep reading...) then should it not work the other way around? So if someone has a ruger .22 charger pistol, with the 10 round limit, could someone take a 30 round 10/22 mag and use it in there?
 
then there is the nifty 10 roundd mags for the Bolt Action AIA enfield reproductions.... and seen as these rifles come with a legal 10 round mag capacity......... AND they fit and funtion perfectly in my M14s...... :D :D you see where i'm heading with that one LOL just to bad the mags are rarer than hens teeth, glad i got 2
 
My understanding of the document in the quest site and what i have seen elsewehere is the Lar-15 mags are only valid as a handgun magazine. If you put it into a rifle, your are breakin the law.
I have a 10 round mag that fits remington semi-auto 7400 30-06's.... its not a valid magazine for those rifles. But its perfectly legal for my Rem 7600 pump.

the status of the Lar mag is as a hangun magazine... you stick it into a rifle.... and your asking for trouble.:(
 
Saafire said:
My understanding of the document in the quest site and what i have seen elsewehere is the Lar-15 mags are only valid as a handgun magazine. If you put it into a rifle, your are breakin the law.
I have a 10 round mag that fits remington semi-auto 7400 30-06's.... its not a valid magazine for those rifles. But its perfectly legal for my Rem 7600 pump.

the status of the Lar mag is as a hangun magazine... you stick it into a rifle.... and your asking for trouble.:(
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It's perfectly legal and not going to get you in trouble.
 
Saafire said:
My understanding of the document in the quest site and what i have seen elsewehere is the Lar-15 mags are only valid as a handgun magazine. If you put it into a rifle, your are breakin the law.
I have a 10 round mag that fits remington semi-auto 7400 30-06's.... its not a valid magazine for those rifles. But its perfectly legal for my Rem 7600 pump.

the status of the Lar mag is as a hangun magazine... you stick it into a rifle.... and your asking for trouble.:(
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You're wrong.
Go back and read the RCMP letter again.
It is the firearm that the magazine is designed to be used in that is important, not the firearm that it happens to be used in.

Do you know to a certainty that your 10 round Remington compatible magazine is, in fact, legal?
It is a rifle magazine designed and manufactured to be used in Remington rifles. Do you have any evidence that it was designed and manufactured to be used only in 760 series slide action rifles, and not in Remington autoloaders? Does the manufacturer suggest that the magazine can be used in either manually operated or autoloading Remington rifles?
 
tiriaq said:
You're wrong.
Go back and read the RCMP letter again.
It is the firearm that the magazine is designed to be used in that is important, not the firearm that it happens to be used in.

Do you know to a certainty that your 10 round Remington compatible magazine is, in fact, legal?
It is a rifle magazine designed and manufactured to be used in Remington rifles. Do you have any evidence that it was designed and manufactured to be used only in 760 series slide action rifles, and not in Remington autoloaders? Does the manufacturer suggest that the magazine can be used in either manually operated or autoloading Remington rifles?
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I understand my understanding was wrong.. i will have to look at the clips i have at home a little more closely. I will see what is stamped on them. but this really is a silly little loop hole...
 
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