De prohibit the FAL Campaign! (template letter added)

Okay to all those that say its not going to happen, if we can get the name prohibiton removed then makers can make semi only FALs. If your stuck on owning an orginal FAL your done, give up and go home.

What you guys are thinking is the wrong way to think. Becuase they are name prohibited then any variant is prohibited reguardless of firing mechanism, if they are not name prohibited then makers can modify the existing design to be semi only. Best example is the m1919a4 semi only, MG34 semi and an even better example is the sten's that you can build or buy that are semi only.

DO not just look at the FAL and think your getting an out of the box milsurp becuase this is never going to happen but if we can get the name prohib removed then a manufacturer or even side company can make and sell semi versions.

Name prohibit and the variant laws rob us of ever even getting a chance to own many firearms becuase they were decided to be a menace to society, thats the bigger fight but the FAL could lead the way!
 
As another point, it never hurts to try. If you don't try you've already failed, we tell our kids this and then go to work and do exactly the opposite out of fear of loosing our jobs. This is a good example of 5 to 10 minutes of your time can have an impact. To those being negative why do you even post a comment, in the time you posted the comment you could have helped write a letter or at least added something to the conversation.

Stop being negative, if you disagree then move a long. We have an election coming and we need to make sure that the party that is going to support us understands what we want from them. This can be one of those stances.

Rather then having the FAL removed from being prohibited it is likely a better idea to have the variants removed from the prohib list, at least this way we can have modified semi only fals. With the history of the firearm in Canadian forces service we could have a chance as the variant laws are currently being challenged in court. This and the bren would be awesome to own.
 
I'll tell you what. I'll send in a letter. My son will send in a letter. My wife will send in a letter. My mother will send in a letter. Everyone I can get to, will send in a letter.
What I need is a properly prepared, fill in the blanks letter with all the pertinant information in it. I do not know the history enough to properly quote it. I have always wanted a FN/FAL for usage and was dismayed when they went prohib.
Give us a letter we can print, fill in the blanks and SIGN and I'll hand them out.
I can pretty much guarantee it's the signature they care about, not reading several hundred lengthy letters. When they get to the second dozen and beyond they will just file it when their eyes detect "FAL" on the page.
LeeEnfield - you seem to know a lot about this rifle, would you be interested in penning something generic, informative, non confrontational and reasonably short for those of us that are information impared but willing to help?
 
colin455 I am with you on that one, I am a horrible letter writer, as I have written several letters to the local papers and politicians and have never got a letter published, I have gotten a couple form letters back from the mp's office tho.

Nightmare that is exactly it, those FALS meet BATF standards and can not be easily converted to auto, so they would be possible to get into Canada if the fal was not prohibited by name.
 
Personally I would rather the AR15/AR10 be derestricted but I totally support the FAL being deprohib. There is no logically reason for it to be prohib in my eyes.

If they deprohib it I will buy one personally and if the AR 10 is derestricted I will buy a KAC SR25 asap too.
 
Davie Sprocket said:
colin455 I am with you on that one, I am a horrible letter writer, as I have written several letters to the local papers and politicians and have never got a letter published, I have gotten a couple form letters back from the mp's office tho.

Nightmare that is exactly it, those FALS meet BATF standards and can not be easily converted to auto, so they would be possible to get into Canada if the fal was not prohibited by name.
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x2 if there is a letter i will happily print it out, sign and send it in.
 
Alright alright I added a letter that can be used as a template, if anyone thinks it needs any changes or notices an error, post it and Ill have a look.

once again though, if we do somehow manage to get this FAL off the list, their is the possibility that the RCMP may classify the current models as 12(2) and 12(3), and I would feel really bad if this resulted in the current owners losing their original FN's.
 
Ah the FAL. Good times. I'd so like to get my hands on one of those again. They were such a hoot during my cadet days. I'll see about sending a letter, perhaps one mentioning that we'd settle for having them as restricted. But yeah, it's only marginably more likely then getting the AK off the list.
 
Ahhhhh the old FN L1A1 aka SLR - yes Im an Aussie folks..........My old man carried one during his service, I carried one in Cadets, unfortunatly when I joined the Army we had the spastic plasic aka F88 AusStyer. We used these (L1A1) for shooting Roo's on a friends Dairy farm when we were in our late teens early 20's.

In the Army we joked and made reference to it being the good guys AK.

I'll be writing a letter, its a decent reliable no frills semi auto that is accurate enough for target shooting as well a top notch hunting rig.
 
The template letter has some errors. It should read *influenced* *entire* *owners*. Also the fourth paragraph is a run on sentence. Not trying to be a grammar Nazi just pointing it out for you.
 
What we really need is for firearm "classes" to be done away with. A gun is a gun is a gun, IMHO... Classification of guns only serves the anti-gunners agenda & does noting to actually reduce crime...

Cheers
Jay
 
purple said:
I wonder how many of you sports fans were active participants in the last great letter writing and protest exercises in the early 1990s when we were fighting against C68 and all of it's implementing regulations.

It was a noble effort, but a failure. The NFA was focussed and quite dynamic at the time, but it was all for nought. I still have a box-full of my various epistles to whatever brand of politician was around at the time. It didn't accomplish sh@t, but I certainly felt better for doing it.
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What makes you say it didn't accomplish anything? Things likely would have gone far worse for us if you guys hadn't gone to all that effort?

The antis and anti politicians would have taken your silence for assent and we might all be limited to single-shot rifles with an effective range of 100 meters or less, like IANSA wants.

You guys need to pat yourself on the back for stemming the anti tide as much as you did, and now that it's ebbing, get back in the saddle and start writing again.
 
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