Chinese Type 81, heard they are coming to Canada
- Thread starter sadrainbow
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I suppose id say its more vz and ak inspired
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- Southern ontario
Its listed as kalashnikov in the frt for the full auto version. Its doomed.
angrysoldier
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In the early 90's I paid 575 for a mak-90 ( ak 47) with a thumb hole stock and 75 round drum. I only sold it before the new laws making it prohib came in to effect. My ishapore fn cost me 200. This rifle maybe 500-700 if its not restricted at best. Just my 2 cents.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
So what. Doesn't mean they've actually inspected one.
This. I highly doubt the RCMP had actually ever inspected one before they listed it as an AK variant. Very few of these have hit civilian markets to my knowledge: only a thousand or so at most went into the US and that stopped in the mid 90's when Chinese imports were banned, and as far as I know, that's the only place civilian versions of these rifles went. Some dweeb at the RCMP probably looked at a picture of one on Google and said: "Hurr looks like an AK to me!" and listed it as a variant, probably way back in the early 2000's if I had to take a guess. The biggest fault of this rifle is that it's not an AK, so it'd be a tough sell even in civilian nations where you can pick up an AK for likely cheaper, that'll plink out in the back 40 just as well as this will. They're not too popular in the US and are actually quite rare. I know Larry Vickers has one, and that some guy on gunbroker recently sold a complete Type 81 collection of every version they ever made (For like 30 grand!!!) but that's really all I've heard about them south of the border. They're rare in gun-loving America, and they're non-existent here as of right now. The RCMP had never seen one in person before the Type 81 was sent to them by TI, I'd bet five bucks on that.
They actually have to inspect one now, and they're going to have one heck of a time arguing that it's an AK variant. The reason they're taking to long is, in my opinion, it's burning their ass that they're going to have to eventually admit they have no idea what they're talking about and change the status. The police tend to not like doing that.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
I think it's taking so long because they haven't looked at it yet. Classification inspections are first come, first served. And active police evidence inspections come before classification inspection at the lab.
There are a lot of gun designs waiting to come to market. The Type 81 is a year or so in, so hopefully not far. That being said, the sturmgewer 22 has been sitting longer.
There are a lot of gun designs waiting to come to market. The Type 81 is a year or so in, so hopefully not far. That being said, the sturmgewer 22 has been sitting longer.
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- Southern ontario
actually they both were submitted august of 2012
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
Right. That would be a year or so ago.
1 year, 3-4 months ago depending on shipping times.
TI stated in February 2012 that they expected their sample to arrive in one months time. They confirmed in mid august 2012 that it was under review. Somewhere in between those times the review started.
The gsg stg44 started long before that, with blue line announcing it was at the lab in February 2011.
So stg44 = submitted February 2011
Type 81 = submitted march 2012 at the earliest, august 2012 latest.
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Is the type 81 a stamped sheet metal reciever? Looks like it. I'm not totally sold on it, I think the Csa vz58- despite all it's problems with manufacturing (which is apparently fixed now and they stand behind their guns 100% so no problems getting things replaced) are a much better guns on every level, the vz platform in General is. Chinese guns as we've seen are problematic and horribly made. Why pay 6-700 for a wannabe ak that doesn't look as good (or function as good I'm sure). Get a vz and put ak furniture on it, if you need your ak fix. It will be more reliable and customizable than the 81.
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- Southern ontario
lets hope it makes it here for 2014!! I'm sure theres a chance it will get through or TI wouldn't have even bothered
Mumbles Marble Mouth
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- Lower Mainland
I remember the Type 81 was on the Tactical Imports website then it got taken down so I assumed they abandoned the idea or they took down the future products page to stop people from bothering them. Anyways, all of Tactical Imports #### is over priced and I remember they were saying it was going to be $1200 for the Type 81 if they were to get accepted and sold in Canada. If the gun does make it into Canada, Id pick one up but not in a hurry.
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- Southern ontario
They took it off too avoid hype for something that might not come
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- Winnipeg, MB
edit: NVM. hopefully they reclassify this beast.
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- Southern ontario
fingers crossed, an eta would calm my nerves a bit
is it ture??? that will be nice
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...Chinese-type-81-Non-restricted-not-on-the-FRT
