How to deactivate a muzzle loader?

Is your goal permanent deactivation, or lawful display? The thread title is deactivation, but you talk about wanting to legally wall hang it, which is something else. What are your requirements?
 
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infideleggwelder said:
Something like the G-loc wall mount. Tried to post a pic but you know how that goes
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Hmmm not sure why the picture isn't working, but here's a link:

http://www.lockedgundisplay.com/index.pl?page=products
 
Or you could de-activate it "old school", hundreds of civil war cannons were made useless to the enemy if capture was eminent. They would ram a projectile down the bore and then ram a hand full of horseshoe nails down after the ball, wedging them into the ball & bore, never to be removed. Every cannon limber had a bag of nails in it so as to be handy when needed.
 
I would not deactivate it.
Just remove the hammer spring or firing nipple and hang it.
Removing parts to render a firearms not usable is considered safe storage.
No need to scrap it with the deactivation process.
 
Mount gun on wall

install two eye bolts in wall with cable lock so they can't be unscrewed wrapped through the trigger guard locking it in the mount.
 
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Janeau said:
I would not deactivate it.
Just remove the hammer spring or firing nipple and hang it.
Removing parts to render a firearms not usable is considered safe storage.
No need to scrap it with the deactivation process.
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Removing THE BOLT or BOLT CARRIER is good enough for storage, no other parts are mentioned in the regulations. However there is two issues with that:

1) There is no bolt or bolt carrier on a percussion gun.
2) This isn't storage, its display. Different regulations, and removing the bolt isn't listed in the display regs.

Display of Non-Restricted Firearms
8 An individual may display a non-restricted firearm only if it

(a) is unloaded;

(b) is rendered inoperable by means of a secure locking device or is in a container, receptacle or room that is kept securely locked and that is constructed so that it cannot readily be broken open or into; and

(c) is not displayed with and is not readily accessible to ammunition that can be discharged from it.
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I Dont Care About You said:
A flinter is not legally a firearm, thus no need to deactivate something that is not a firearm.
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a flintlock is not a firearm for the purposes of licensing but it is a firearm for purposes of storage / display and if used in a crime. Securely bolting it to a wall, or removing the mainspring and perhaps removing the flint would meet the intent of the storage laws. Removing a leaf spring, if present, is easy, but removing a coil spring which is found in many modern reproductions is more difficult and especially putting a coil spring back in is particularly difficult without the proper tool

cheers mooncoon
 
mooncoon said:
a flintlock is not a firearm for the purposes of licensing but it is a firearm for purposes of storage / display and if used in a crime. Securely bolting it to a wall, or removing the mainspring and perhaps removing the flint would meet the intent of the storage laws. Removing a leaf spring, if present, is easy, but removing a coil spring which is found in many modern reproductions is more difficult and especially putting a coil spring back in is particularly difficult without the proper tool

cheers mooncoon
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Antique Firearms
14 (1) An individual may store, display or transport an antique firearm only if it is unloaded.
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It appears to me that unloaded is the only requirement for a Flintlock, but the OP has a modern repro of a percussion gun and that's not an antique.
 
mooncoon said:
a flintlock is not a firearm for the purposes of licensing but it is a firearm for purposes of storage / display and if used in a crime.......
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8ball said:
Flintlock muzzleloaders are not even considered as non restricted firearms.......
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While it's all fine and dandy if the law & regulations state it is/isn't The person that it really matters to is the first-day-rookie-flatfoot that has to show up with EMS when we have our first heart attacks.
THAT'S the guy that is gonna pack up all our guns and toss them in lockup until someone feels like getting around to looking into it.

Err on the side of caution.
 
8ball said:
The Law is clear even for the rookie. No panic, just keep a print of it.
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the law may be clear but people's understanding of it, is not and in many cases, people will seize on the portions they want to be true and either not look or disregard those parts which differ from their interpretation

cheers mooncoon
 
gumbellion said:
I have a TC Mountain Carbine that i think i am going to make into a wall ornament.

I have done some searching, but is there anything that needs to be done to display a muzzle loader to ensure it is legal?
I am not finding any answers
Thanks
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Put a triggerguard lock on it like any modern gun. If a more permanent method is wanted then WELD
the hole were the nipple was.
 
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mooncoon said:
the law may be clear but people's understanding of it, is not and in many cases, people will seize on the portions they want to be true and either not look or disregard those parts which differ from their interpretation

cheers mooncoon
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It's also worth mentioning that the information on the RCMP/CFP website is simply someone's interpretation of the actual law - firearms act, criminal code and various regulations.

i.e. while the info is probably pretty accurate ..... don't count on it ;)
 
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