LAR 15 mags for hunting
- Thread starter FiringSquad
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In this specific case, the 7615 was advertised as taking AR mags, so this country treats 7615 magazines as if they were intended for the AR-15, and thus pinned to 5 rather than unlimited as they would otherwise have been.
Had they not advertised it as such, then the gun could indeed have shipped with larger capacity magazines. Use of those larger capacity magazines in a semi-auto would not have made you a criminal. There are no laws regulating the use of legal magazines in legal firearms. If your magazine is legal and your firearm is legal, you may use it. (exceptions to this may be found in provincial hunting regs)
The laws as they are written derive legal magazine capacity from the firearm it is designed or advertised for.
A magazine for the XCR mini holding 10 rounds of 223 does not become a prohibited device if you insert it into your XCR-L. The magazine is legally separate from the firearm. Its legal capacity does not change if you insert it into another firearm.
The RCMP will however pursue a policy of imposing the lowest round count they can. So the 7615 gets pinned to 5 because it was advertised as taking AR mags, and the M&P 15-22 mags all got recalled and pinned to 10 as soon as a pistol came out that was advertised as using the same magazines. Ruger BX-25 magazines must also be pinned to 10 because they were advertised as fitting their charger pistol, when at the same time the BC mags are left unpinned due to them only being advertised for 10/22 rifles.
You are also not forbidden from inserting a different cartridge into a magazine. Maybe someone out there could tell me how many 223 cartridges you can cram into an XCR 7.62x39 pistol mag. If it feeds properly, you're good to go.
There's nothing stopping someone from designing a rimfire cartridge with identical dimensions to the 223 for example, and producing a rifle that has a 20 or 30 round magazine. In this country, semi-auto or not, as a rimfire rifle the magazine capacity would be unlimited. You would be free to insert 30 rounds of 223 in the magazine and insert that magazine in another firearm if the magazine turned out to be compatible in another firearm. Legally.
I'd double check that. As far as I understand it semi-auto rifless in Ontario cannot hold more that 5 rounds when hunting.
See post #14 for the exact wording out of the regulations and my explanation as to why LAR-15 magazines remain legal for hunting in Ontario.
- Location
- Southern ON.
In Ontario mag limit applies to all shotgun hunting. It varies by province for other species, but it is the same accross Canada for migratory birds . Direct quote from MNR website:
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/Enforcement/2ColumnSubPage/198399.html
- Location
- Southern ON.
Mag limits in the hunting regulations of Ontario only specificly limit shotguns and apply to all action types.
Rifle mag limits are based on the criminal code.
Quote from the Ontario hunting regs:
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume/groups/lr/@mnr/@fw/documents/document/239841.pdf
The Garand was extemped as it was of "historical importance" and also very hard if not impossible to block.
I also remember them specificly listing the Lee Enfield as extempt because it was a bolt action!!
Classic stuff that happens when those who don't know what they are making the rules about make the rules!
I don't play golf so perhaps I should make the rules for golf. Exactly what happend when all this was made up.
I knew that Remington issue was too good to be true to use the full 30 round AR mags. Oh well. It might all soon be a moot point anyway if we get to drill the rivets out...
