H&K SP89-A1 ~ Not on the list ?

[Boomer74]

So I can pretty much guarantee it's a variant (MP5), but it's not on "the list". Damn...!

Sooo ###y, very spendy, super rare. But a guy can dream.

* BTW - $9750 US @ http://www.longmountain.com/inventory/regularfirearms/5885/

 

[enefgee]

Yup, prohibited as a variant and by name. Also they were about $1200 when new. Comes complete with some of the same issues as the MP5K.

 

[ph33r]

It is on the list, my friend. As such, that firearm is specifically prohibited, as well as its variants.

Regulations Prescribing Certain Firearms and other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited or Restricted
(SOR/98-462)

(...)

PRESCRIPTION

2. The firearms listed in Part 1 of the schedule are prohibited firearms for the purposes of paragraph (d) of the definition “prohibited firearm” in subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code.

(...)


SCHEDULE
(Sections 2 to 6)
PART 1
PROHIBITED FIREARMS

37. The firearm of the design commonly known as the Heckler and Koch (HK) SP89 Auto Pistol, and any variant or modified version of it.

 

[sigger69]

SP89 was prohibited without a class, therefore they all had to be turned in without compensation IIRC.

 

[Boomer74]

I tried looking on the RCMP site, but it's under construction or sumthin.

Oh well...

 

[UCSPanther]

Get a Mini SAF. They pretty much are the same type of animal.

 

[mozambique technique]

An associate of mine had one of those confiscated back in the day. Why were some guns confiscated while others grandfathered? All the other H&K stuff was grandfathered wasn't it?
I lived through that period (and got 12.4,5,6 because of the stuff I owned) but I can't remember why it happened that way. I remember my SPAS 12 was prohib without grandfathering so I had to sell it.

 

[fnrob]

An associate of mine had one of those confiscated back in the day. Why were some guns confiscated while others grandfathered? All the other H&K stuff was grandfathered wasn't it?
I lived through that period (and got 12.4,5,6 because of the stuff I owned) but I can't remember why it happened that way. I remember my SPAS 12 was prohib without grandfathering so I had to sell it.

You can thank Kim Campbell for that one with C-17. For whatever reason, Prohibited Weapons Order #11 (which this gun is listed under), was not covered by grandfathering, while Order #12 (which became 12(4)), and the converted autos 12(3) were grandfathered. And the worst part is, many of the guns under Order #11 were pistols, so they were already registered, making this an earlier case of registration being used to confiscate.