Hello all, thanks for your replies.
Sorry if I used an unfamiliar term. It means to make something less dangerous and more toy-like. With reference to the Nerf line of children's toys. I think the government treats us like children and has nerfed many of the guns available here. Pinning a 20 round magazine to 5 is an example of "nerfing", so is taking a rifle meant to be select fire and altering it so it is only semi.
As a matter of pride and principle I refuse to buy a nerfed gun.
I want a gun that is fully capable of everything its designer intended it to be. That means there are certain guns that I cannot buy in Canada. On the other hand, there are many that I CANbuy, and that's what this thread is about: Finding a gun that is non restricted in Canada without it being a nerfed version of the gun.
Swiss arms classic green/black. I have one of the "season specials" shot a 4.5" 5 shot group at 400 yards on the weekend with factory ammo.
Thanks! I did find that one is available at Wolverine before I found thread, and that is obviously a big plus. However the classic is not the gun currently in use by the Swiss Army, though, they use a version of the 550 with select fire, so are these classics not actually nerfed civilian versions of that?
They DID have a SIG 550-1 Sniper rifle, no longer in production, with an accurized barrel that, I believe (not 100% sure) was only ever fielded as a semi-automatic weapon. To the extent that the Swiss Army themselves chose to field that as a semi-automatic I would not consider that nerfed.
Do you know if the SIG 550-1 Sniper is still available anywhere, and whether it would have non restricted status in Canada?
The first step would be to get your PAL (or preferably RPAL). If you have already done that, then you should check out this thread. It contains a list of cool looking non-restricted rifles.
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=640685&highlight=black+rifles+restricted
Thanks I have my RPAL, though I'll be honest and admit I only ever got the R part because I was taking the course anyway so I signed up for the second day and there's no doubt much I've forgotten/ignored since. Until now I have just dealt with garden variety hunting rifles and not really even paid that much attention to them to be honest. I am definitely on a learning curve here and am happy to take whatever advice/information people can provide.
In any case that thread you cited looks great. I will look through it and cross check it against the list of DMR type rifles that I'm aware of, thanks.
To be honest what I've found hardest so far is sorting out what is actually restricted and what is actually non restricted. If you guys hadn't said so, I would have naively guessed that the Swiss Arms Classic was a restricted gun because I would have thought it was based on the SG 550, which is listed in one of the schedules of restricted guns.
Seems like some sort of black magic to sort out what guns are restricted and what are not. I would not be adverse to driving across to the US to buy a gun, fill out whatever paperwork, and bring it back, if I could be sure it would be non restricted, but it seems so hard to figure out!
