Fn fal

[StoneHorse]

Along with everything said so far...........the powers at the time also deemed the FN to have "no legitimate sporting use" . Meaning not suitable for hunting .

The only way for me to have a functioning FN today is to invent a time machine.

 

[fnrob]

Ok has there ever been a instance where the govt. has gone the other way and taken a prohib and made it a non prohib? or a restricted and made it a non restricted

I read somewhere the AR-15 went restricted back in '77 with C-51, and when Joe Clark took office in 1979, it was put back to non-restricted. Can anyone confirm?

 

[marshall]

I sold many fn's back in the day, I have never had any with welded safty sears,
thou in alberta at the time they where way more classed 12.3, in Sk most are12.5
And they where never restricted, went from NR to Pro. A lot of pissed off people.
BTW,when Century Internation where selling 1A1's from india, Dealer price was $99.
each per crate. The Metrc ones I did not handle much, most of them are 12.3's

 

[BattleRife]

I sold many fn's back in the day, I have never had any with welded safty sears,
thou in alberta at the time they where way more classed 12.3, in Sk most are12.5
And they where never restricted, went from NR to Pro.

Welded safety sears I understand was a Quebec thing, I have spoken to more than one person who tried to register an FAL in Quebec and the authorities demanded it be handed over for inspection. When it was handed back, the sear was removed and the slot welded to not accept another one.

And the FAL was restricted for years, from the early 80's until prohibition in 1994. For many years it was the only common model of firearm that was restricted by name.

 

[ipscgraz]

Ok has there ever been a instance where the govt. has gone the other way and taken a prohib and made it a non prohib? or a restricted and made it a non restricted

My Valmet M 78 was restricted because it looked like an AK. (Except for scale at almost twice the size.)

Out of the blue I got a nice letter from the RCMP sayig it had been deemed NOT an AK variant and was classified as NR.



I think I went through about 250 or 300 rounds that weekend out behind Chilliwack lake.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Welded safety sears I understand was a Quebec thing, I have spoken to more than one person who tried to register an FAL in Quebec and the authorities demanded it be handed over for inspection. When it was handed back, the sear was removed and the slot welded to not accept another one.

And the FAL was restricted for years, from the early 80's until prohibition in 1994. For many years it was the only common model of firearm that was restricted by name.

First batch of Aussie L1 A1 s I ever saw were pure junk, piled in an open display bin at Crown Surplus in Calgary, obviously before they were declared restricted. Dirt cheap too. Safety sears welded in.

Grizz

 

[CLydesdale1812]

The SADDEST thing about this. I want nothing more than for my old man to come out blasting with me. All my old man wants to shoot is his old C1A1. Broke my heart when I told him he couldn't own it, despite the fact he knew every little idiosyncrasy with that firearm. Maybe I'll surprise him with a Lee...

 

[marshall]

The SADDEST thing about this. I want nothing more than for my old man to come out blasting with me. All my old man wants to shoot is his old C1A1. Broke my heart when I told him he couldn't own it, despite the fact he knew every little idiosyncrasy with that firearm. Maybe I'll surprise him with a Lee...

Did he not have a licence??? you can still own them, as long as he kept his licence up.
On the other hand I know lots of fellows that could not be bothered to keep their paper up and then cry when
they can't keep their 12/whatever.
BTW I had taken back 3 12/3, and a couple of 12/5, as well as 12/6 for this reason.

 

[CLydesdale1812]

Did he not have a licence??? .

No, it was issued to him when he was reg. force.

 

[shredder]

I don't know about other versions, but the C1 could very easily be converted to full-auto (speaking from personal experience) by what we called "paper slipping". You take some foil paper from a cigarette pack, fold it up into a small square and slip it.... well you get the idea. Worked quite easily. Of course it really was a useless thing to do as FALs are useless in full auto anyway. Way too hard to control. I think only Belgium and Australia made full-auto versions (someone correct me if I'm wrong) and most other countries chose to do a semi-only version. Not talking about heavy barrelled versions here of course. If gang bangers all had FALs converted to full auto our city streets would be quite safe. Don't know about low flying planes though.

Sorry, you're quite right.

BUT for that little trick to work, you have to know WHERE to slip that little fold of paper. (I was taught how back in the 80's in the military).

That said, you're also right that a FN-FAL is all but uncontrollable on full-auto - unless you happen to be a WWE heavyweight wrestler!