Deactivating No 4s

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Sad, sad day at work today. went to see the gunplumber about some cleaning kit parts and there he was, drilling chambers and pinning them and welding up the bolts on 6 or so longbranch No4s. converting them to Drill Purpose only for the cadet corps. my heart sank when I saw that. he said there is more that will be getting the same treatment. I went back to my office deeply and profoundly disturbed.
 
Yeah. Heaven forbid, you can't have a cadet using an empty friggin' rifle for drill. Best to ruin it completely. Canada is sunk. Bureaucrats, stupid laws and regulations, politically correct foolishness, mamby pamby horse dung left wing news outlets, liebral and dipper gov'ts - all have dragged a once great country down like a pack of wolves drags down its prey. :mad:
 
Not to side with anyone, but I'd bet they were government owned to begin with, and we'd never have seen them back in private hands again anyway. Not that that makes it better, but easier to swallow...
 
DPs

At our local cadet corps, they have fifteen boltless sightless C No.7 rifles converted to DP by welding at the chamber and muzzle.

Blueing is perfect, dark walnut is just beautiful. ovrec

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They still have some live .22s for use for biathlon practice.

But the marksmanship program is now performed using .177 Daisy air rifles. Hoo-ah!
 

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kjohn said:
Yeah. Heaven forbid, you can't have a cadet using an empty friggin' rifle for drill. Best to ruin it completely. Canada is sunk. Bureaucrats, stupid laws and regulations, politically correct foolishness, mamby pamby horse dung left wing news outlets, liebral and dipper gov'ts - all have dragged a once great country down like a pack of wolves drags down its prey. :mad:
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This right here says it all!
 
englishman_ca said:
At our local cadet corps, they have fifteen boltless sightless C No.7 rifles converted to DP by welding at the chamber and muzzle.

Blueing is perfect, dark walnut is just beautiful. ovrec

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They still have some live .22s for use for biathlon practice.

But the marksmanship program is now performed using .177 Daisy air rifles. Hoo-ah!
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LOL. So sad to see DEACTIVATED .22 plinkers locked up like they will spontaneously kill a baby if not watched carefully for even one second...
 
Claven2 said:
LOL. So sad to see DEACTIVATED .22 plinkers locked up like they will spontaneously kill a baby if not watched carefully for even one second...
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If you think the firearm storage laws for us civilians are crazy, you should see DND firearm storage regulations. Bolts or bolt carriers have to be stored and locked in a different cabinet than the firearms for instance. DND regulations are the same for all firearms, ie a deactivated No4 is the considered the same as a C6 or C9 machine gun regarding storage.
 
If you think the firearm storage laws for us civilians are crazy, you should see DND firearm storage regulations.
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Yes, I remember them well. C7, C8, C6, C9 etc. inside a concrete re-inforced steel wall vault with steel vault door. Inside the vault cable locked in wall racks. Bolts stored separately inside another small vault inside the large vault. Would have required a hollow charge explosive to breech.
 
Back in 95 visited a friend at Ranger School, then we went over to watch 2,200 #4's crushed under APC treads on pavement, all had Destruct tags, 4 portions filled out.
 
englishman_ca said:
At our local cadet corps, they have fifteen boltless sightless C No.7 rifles converted to DP by welding at the chamber and muzzle.

Blueing is perfect, dark walnut is just beautiful. ovrec

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They still have some live .22s for use for biathlon practice.

But the marksmanship program is now performed using .177 Daisy air rifles. Hoo-ah!
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Just as well that they are deactivated....the unit's gun rack does not appear to meet DND security standards for small arms. The rack is not to be made from wood, and it almost looks like if you undid the 4 bolts the the two locking bars hinge on, you could remove the bars and then the rifles.

Shame about the Cno7s being deactivated like this. They are far more expensive than the typical no4, and so often were the first rifle urban Canadian youth learned to shoot with as cadets.
 
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