It's about the same antique status as a 19thC p*ss pot. An unuseable antique firearm here in UK that anybody over the age of 18 can walk in, buy, walk out with it.
How you get it into Canada is the thing. I live in England, and bought a Snider from a poster here. All he needed to send it was a letter from the Mounties confirming its antique status - not difficult in view of the date 1862 on the lockplate.
Just re-read your #20 post above - seems pretty clear to me. Lucky for us we tend not to have snarky customs crew when we enter Canada, except for the one guy in Vancouver who had never seen an HO unpainted brass model locomotive before. I'd bought it in Portland OR. He took it away to test it to make sure I wasn't smuggling gold. I got a real stinky eye when he came back, telling me that it 'seemed to be made of cheap brass'.
Yeah, US$1500, 'cheap'. Huh.
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