Help! MAK47/22, a prohib ????

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A friend of mine has a Squires-Bingham Mak47/22. He's had it since the 80's and when he registered it he put in "unknown" in all the fields and got a registration certificate to go with it. His CFO finally came around to verify the gun and he's being told it's a prohib and he doesn't have the grandfathering to own it. Regardless of ownership qualification, I don't see this model on the list of prohibited firearms. It was manufactured in the Phillipines and i believe it is the typical blowback model .22 rf. Anyone know the story on this model?
Is it prohibited?
 
He should challenge the decision in provincial court. If he'd like, I can put him in contact with counsel for Mr. Henderson.

Its not listed in the SOR.
 
I say fight for the grandfathering first!!! He has been in continuous possession of a prohib firearm that he legally bought, the crown should issue him a license for it.
 
Thanks for the eye-opening replies. However my friend is in the middle of divorce procedings and is in a poor position to take on another fight, also his work takes him to sea at irregular and unpredictable times, and he could have trouble meeting court dates.
I will pass along Paul's offer of assistance nonetheless.
 
How about transfering it into a gunshops store stock and see if they can straighten this out, as my friend shop has a similiar experiance and in the end it was all rectified if we are talking about the same gun, just a suggestion and the store would probably charge a small fee! Dale in T-Bay
 
The action of that rifle is the same as Squires Bingham model 20. I have one of those. Order up a stock from Ruko of Canada, they were the importer and change out all of the stock components, then re-register the rifle as a model 20. That should drive the CFO nuts enough!

Scott
 
The SB's are all the same action as the model 20. SB, Armscor, Ruko all the same guns.

The SB 1600 and 1600R's are the M16 lookalikes, and they are NON-RESTRICTED (I have 5 of them). One I received and found that it had been registered as restricted, so I had it changed - no problem.

The SB Mak22 is an AK47 lookalike and they are prohib. I have one of them too, and they would not grandfather me, and I did not have the time or money for a legal battel over a silly 22, so I had it dewat'd.

It doesn't make any sense, but it is the way it is, and they have precedence in their favour.

Unlike a prohib pistol which has always been registered, the issue with grandfathering a long-gun is that it is hard for you to prove when you aquired the rifle, so proof of continuous ownership is not there. Likewise, if he had registered it properly in the first place, they would have listed it as prohib then, and probably grandfathered him.

Sorry, but based on my experiences, your friend is SOL.
 
From the standpoint of a court challenge to the classification of "variant", the SB should be a pretty good candidate.
It is demonstrably a variant of the standard SB Model 20 series.
 
It doesn't make any sense, but it is the way it is, and they have precedence in their favour.
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They don't have precedent in their favour. They might in a month or two, but not right now. Right now the only precedent on this issue is R. v. Henderson, a case which mr. Henderson won, on substantially similar facts.

The fact that other people, unbeknownst to the owner, have had theirs classified as prohibited is not legal precedent.
 
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