Please Educate me: semiauto handgun barrel lengh
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Fully assembled except for removable muzzle devices, close the slide and put a stick or rod down the bore until it stops at the firing pin face*. Make a mark on the rod right across the level of the muzzle, then take it out and measure from that mark to the end.
* Make sure your rod is not so wide as to get jammed before it reaches the end, and that it hasn't hung up on something. Wiggle it around; you want to read the maximum depth.
The definition of barrel length is found in the Criminal Code Part III, Section 84(2), and in this case means:
(b) The distance from the muzzle of the barrel to and including the chamber,
but does not include the length of any component, part or accessory including any component, part or accessory designed or intended to suppress the muzzle flash or reduce recoil.
This basically means the entire rifled length (plus the crown), added to the length of the chamber (plus the throat and head-space). If there is a muzzle brake, fake silencer, or some other attachment on your gun, it is not included.
The Law states ‘barrel equal to or less than 105mm’ when it comes to Prohibited hand-guns (Firearms Act S.12(6.1)(a)). This means if the measurement is any amount over 105mm, even by a nanometer (if you can prove it), it is not Prohibited by length.
Since with hand-guns you're basically looking for anything over 105mm, you can use a cheap short plastic caliper like you'd get at the dollar store (pictured below): square the end marked ‘Made in Taiwan’ across the crown and open the jaws to drop the depth measuring spike down the barrel; you can read the number right off the scale. With something longer like a rifle or shotgun, start with a rod you know is longer than the barrel so it will reach.
Fully assembled except for removable muzzle devices, close the slide and put a stick or rod down the bore until it stops at the firing pin face*. Make a mark on the rod right across the level of the muzzle, then take it out and measure from that mark to the end.
* Make sure your rod is not so wide as to get jammed before it reaches the end, and that it hasn't hung up on something. Wiggle it around; you want to read the maximum depth.
The definition of barrel length is found in the Criminal Code Part III, Section 84(2), and in this case means:
(b) The distance from the muzzle of the barrel to and including the chamber,
but does not include the length of any component, part or accessory including any component, part or accessory designed or intended to suppress the muzzle flash or reduce recoil.
This basically means the entire rifled length (plus the crown), added to the length of the chamber (plus the throat and head-space). If there is a muzzle brake, fake silencer, or some other attachment on your gun, it is not included.
The Law states ‘barrel equal to or less than 105mm’ when it comes to Prohibited hand-guns (Firearms Act S.12(6.1)(a)). This means if the measurement is any amount over 105mm, even by a nanometer (if you can prove it), it is not Prohibited by length.
Since with hand-guns you're basically looking for anything over 105mm, you can use a cheap short plastic caliper like you'd get at the dollar store (pictured below): square the end marked ‘Made in Taiwan’ across the crown and open the jaws to drop the depth measuring spike down the barrel; you can read the number right off the scale. With something longer like a rifle or shotgun, start with a rod you know is longer than the barrel so it will reach.
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- West Quebec
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