FN Model 22 32cal prohib?

Criminal Code Part III Section 84(1):

“prohibited firearm” means (a) a handgun that […] (ii) is designed or adapted to discharge a 25 or 32 calibre cartridge, but does not include any such handgun that is prescribed, where the handgun is for use in international sporting competitions governed by the rules of the International Shooting Union.

The list of excluded guns is in the Regulations Prescribing Exclusions from Certain Definitions of the Criminal Code (International Sporting Competition Handguns) (SOR/98-465). It's a bunch of fancy target guns mostly, and your FN isn't.
 
The 32 cal version is prohibited. The 380 version is restricted. If you can get a 380 barrel you can have it re-registered as restricted. Not sure about magazines.

I am looking for a 380 auto magazine for one if anyone has one / knows of a source.
 
Most of the FN/Browning 1922 7.65 (.32ACP) magazines will cycle .380 just fine. Some need a tiny bit of adjustment, but the vast majority of the ones I've got / had will hold .380 without issue.

These pistols were made in .380 first, and scaled back to .32 at customer (military) request.

They're great pistols, usually a bargain because there are plenty of them. A lot of German WWII and other old ones are kicking around our fair Dominion as war trophies.
 
ok..so further information..So its actually a 380 (I think) as a 32 cartridge almost slides down the barrel. 9mm is stamped on the breech block. I read in the standard catologue of military firearms that they were chambered in "7.65 only" which confuses things even more...I will get a 380 round and carefully see if it chambers.

Thanks again everyone.
 
stevejones said:
ok..so further information..So its actually a 380 (I think) as a 32 cartridge almost slides down the barrel. 9mm is stamped on the breech block. I read in the standard catologue of military firearms that they were chambered in "7.65 only" which confuses things even more...I will get a 380 round and carefully see if it chambers.

Thanks again everyone.
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Maybe you could post a few pics and the experts here can help you...
 
The "9mm" on the chamber indicates a 9mm cartridge that is shorter than 9mm Parabellum (9mm Luger), and is what in North America is called ".380". There are lots of guns that shoot cartridges with bullets that are 9mm caliber, especially guns from Europe, like the 1922 Browning, the 1911 Steyr and the 1921 Astra (all different 9mm cartridges). The 1910 Brownings, which are sort of like smaller versions of the 1922, were occasionally sold with 7.65mm (.32 ACP) and 9mm (.380 ACP) barrels, but the pistol is a "pocket pistol" and the barrels are shorter than those on the 1922, and so the 1910 is "prohibited". Your 1922 Browning should be able to be bought as a "restricted" gun.
 
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