Let me get this straight...

"...that makes it legal as an antique caliber, even if it's abundantly available and modern..." Nope. There are no antiques that ever used the .45 ACP. The ACP is very much post 1898.
"...important to read the original laws..." Absolutely.
 
oops, shoulda stated i was talking about the 45 colt in that post, not 45 acp. Some one told me if it shoots a 45 colt in BP, its antique, but if you can shoot 45 colt and its made to use smokeless, than its restricted.

Sardaukar said:
45 Colt and 45 Automatic Colt Pistol are not the same thing. That got me confused at first. What is inside the brass is not relevant.

Check out the sticky about antique regulations. Mooncoon posted scans of the law in page 2. The no-no list is in there, from the horse's mouth.
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sunray said:
"...that makes it legal as an antique caliber, even if it's abundantly available and modern..." Nope. There are no antiques that ever used the .45 ACP. The ACP is very much post 1898.
"...important to read the original laws..." Absolutely.
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SOR 98-464 spells out the cartridges on the no go list. It does not matter if the gun was never chambered in any given cartridge originally. What does matter is whether or not the cartridge is listed on the no go list which is what prevents a pre 1898 handgun from being a legally prescribed antique

cheers mooncoon
 
The frame and what it was originally intended for is what counts, mods that you do to the cylinder after the fact don't. The funny thing is, nobody cares about an antique handgun, but get say, a lever-action rifle of the same manufacture date and it can't possibly be an antique.
 
Antiques are a perfect example why gun control and registries are useless. Gangbangers don't buy antiques, only law obedient hard-core collectors do (too pricey & too much of a pain in the ass for a gangbanger, especially when pretty much anyone interested can get a street gun for half the price.. plus a street gun shoots modern ammo that's available pretty much anywhere - 9mm, etc).

So... how many people killed with antiques recently? Not a whole lot. In fact such incidents are so few that the antis didn't even get wind of it yet and the antique regulations have been around for a VERY long time. All in all, I don't think that antique regulations are an "oversight"... rather I think that antique regulations are the only sane firearm-related legislature still in existence in this country.

Only people who were never faced with the threat of being shot on the streets (while performing their duties or otherwise) can claim that gun control & registries work... people like Wendy Cukier who sit in a university classroom or office and "theorize" all day long, with no insight on what's really going on out there. Sad but true.

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