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This is available from Atlantic Firearms in the States, its .223 semi only. Do you think it would be allowed in?

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It would probably be classed as a variant, and prohibited. Also, lots of these newly made "pistols" are CA rewelds. The only reason they are "pistols" is to get around the SBR laws I believe...you can find AK pistols, Ppsh "pistols", etc.
 
Also, lots of these newly made "pistols" are CA rewelds.
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Are you certain?

I've always heard "once a machine gun, always a machine gun". For that reason they can't buy VZ and CZ's like us but have to pay $1200 U.S due to the newly manufactured receiver.
 
mtallman said:
It would probably be classed as a variant, and prohibited. Also, lots of these newly made "pistols" are CA rewelds. The only reason they are "pistols" is to get around the SBR laws I believe...you can find AK pistols, Ppsh "pistols", etc.
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No, they are not. They have to start out as new recievers. You are correct in that by starting out as a pistol, it allows features not allowed on a rifle using imported parts.

A decade ago, several manufacturers were rewelding "destroyed" recievers and selling them as title 1 firearms. BATFE has all but eliminated that possibility.
 
Sorry, I think I mistook the info on one site that said they were rewelded recievers. Maybe they were from a while back?
 
Anything is allowed in, we just can't sell them to the plebs. Also, that gun would be impossible to get out of the US without an end-user cert stating it was for a purpose other than civilian sales. It would be easier to get an HK33/53 from overseas than that Vector from the US.
 
Canuck223 said:
They have to start out as new recievers.
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So, in theory, if they are new recievers we can import things like the Ppsh43 "pistol" (the only modification is that the stock is welded in the folded position), ?(and then try to reset the stock)

Edit: here's the gun in question militarygunsupply.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=FIRUPPSH43P
 
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mtallman said:
So, in theory, if they are new recievers we can import things like the Ppsh43 "pistol" (the only modification is that the stock is welded in the folded position), ?(and then try to reset the stock)

Edit: here's the gun in question militarygunsupply.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=FIRUPPSH43P
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I didn't check the link, but in general;

1) If the gun isn't named as a prohib
2) If the gun isn't clearly, or claimed by the manufacturer to be a varient of a named prohib
3) If the gun isn't full auto or selective fire, or made from a reciever previously assembled as full auto or selective fire

than the gun can most likely be imported and sold in Canada as a restricted or non-restricted firearms, subject to the legal definitions in the Firearms act.
 
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