Pump Shotgun Magazine Limit?

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Hello everyone, sorry if this is a basic question... I'm having trouble getting clarity on this. Do the proposed magazine limits affect non semi-auto long guns? i.e. will we be expected to somehow permanently alter a shotgun if it's magazine tube holds more than 5 rounds? I am looking for a new pump action shotgun and wondering if I should be limiting my search to ones that are factory 5+1.

Thanks for the help!
 
That 5 round limit only applies to semi autos......Pumps can have as many rounds as you like. (Unless you are hunting please check out your provincial hunting regulations for that)
 
From memory the mag limit only affects semi auto shotgun (and even that is complicated as it is 5 + 1 rounds of whatever the largest round the gun can hold so a mag which can hold 5 x 3.5" rounds would also hold 7 x 2 3/4" rounds)

Mag shotguns do not have a limit I believe but no doubt someone will correct me if I am out to lunch.

I will also mention that all this is academic as the Liberals have got it in their crosshairs as part of their plan to save the world from legal gun owners and the current laws may be obsolete in a few weeks.
 
Thanks for the comments, I guess what I'm referring to is the announcement from May 30 where PM's office states "the Government of Canada will require long-gun magazines to be permanently altered so they can never hold more than five rounds and will ban the sale and transfer of large capacity magazines under the Criminal Code."

To me that sounds like a blanket 5 round limit regardless of long gun type. So just wondering if I'm being dense here.
 
If I was buying a new pump I would buy a 5 round factory made and if I wanted to extend the mag do it after I get it
That way if it ever changes down the road and it may the ways things are going you can return your gun to factory and keep it
Just my 2 cents
 
Cteve said:
That 5 round limit only applies to semi autos......Pumps can have as many rounds as you like. (Unless you are hunting please check out your provincial hunting regulations for that)
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Maybe something is afoot?? I thought the 2 round thing was a Federal requirement for hunting migratory birds - not a provincial requirement - but when I tried to look that up on line, it is as if most of the regulations have been "amended" as of July 30 this year, and all I get are "blank" to look at - as if the "amendment" deleted the previous regulation??

So, say, 20 years ago in Saskatchewan, needed a "plug" in your pump action magazine, if you were out in a field in a goose pit surrounded by goose decoys - "hunting" migratory birds - so that you could not put more than two rounds in your magazine. But later that winter, tromping around same field for a crack at coyote - I did not think there was any limit how many rounds in that same pump gun magazine ...

Thinking more - must have been more than 20 years ago - we were using #2 lead shot for geese - often 3" shells. I seem to recall BB 3" for coyotes ...
 
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Potashminer said:
Maybe something is afoot?? I thought the 2 round thing was a Federal requirement for hunting migratory birds - not a provincial requirement - but when I tried to look that up on line, it is as if most of the regulations have been "amended" as of July 30 this year, and all I get are "blank" to look at - as if the "amendment" deleted the previous regulation??
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Pretty normal for the regs this time of year to be blank in some places until the new ones are posted. Some provinces have three max now do they not for hunting like Ontario maybe
 
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Worrying about future laws is a spectrum, once you go down that road.

If your thinking of 1 year down the line, you might buy a 5 shot. If your worried about 5 years down the line, forget anything that holds more than two. 10 years? Dont bother with firearms at all.

My suggestion is to stay off that road and buy what you want if its available. Live now. Thats something youre less likely to regret later on.
 
stripperclipper said:
The current laws don't make any sense.
Don't waste your time trying to make sense of the future laws.
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Yup, that's pretty much it in a nutshell. So let's say they put limits on a tubular magazine. On my SA shotgun I can get a certain amount of shells of one brand in there, and yet for another brand, it can only fit one less. So which one is it? And, what if I am using minishells/shortys? These blanket proposed policies are likely put together by someone/some group that have never shot a gun in their life.

When I got my 870 eons ago, the guys at LeBaron told me there's a green plastic round limiter that needs to stay in the gun if I were to use it to hunt. I wasn't hunting with it nor did I plan to, so I took it out years ago.
 
Buy NOW while you can!! Fall may be TEOTWAWKI !! Or it may not?? You can always add/subtract parts as you wish. Buy a 5 and add a +2 - or More!
 
Hi everyone, thanks for all the replies. Yep I'm definitely clear on the current rules, it was more a question of "future-proofing" my contemplated purchase. If I buy something with >5 in the magazine tube today, will I have to mangle it in a few months to comply with what JT has in store. Sounds like it is a mug's game to play the guessing game!
 
internetcomic said:
Hi everyone, thanks for all the replies. Yep I'm definitely clear on the current rules, it was more a question of "future-proofing" my contemplated purchase. If I buy something with >5 in the magazine tube today, will I have to mangle it in a few months to comply with what JT has in store. Sounds like it is a mug's game to play the guessing game!
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Just at add anytime I have played the guessing game in the last three years I have lost :( Make sure if you buy more than 5 it can be easily mangled
 
internetcomic said:
Hi everyone, thanks for all the replies. Yep I'm definitely clear on the current rules, it was more a question of "future-proofing" my contemplated purchase. If I buy something with >5 in the magazine tube today, will I have to mangle it in a few months to comply with what JT has in store. Sounds like it is a mug's game to play the guessing game!
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Exactly. There is no concrete or written proposal, we just have election-style poseur statements from a pack of known liars. Nothing can be reliably determined from their sound bites.
 
internetcomic said:
Hi everyone, thanks for all the replies. Yep I'm definitely clear on the current rules, it was more a question of "future-proofing" my contemplated purchase. If I buy something with >5 in the magazine tube today, will I have to mangle it in a few months to comply with what JT has in store. Sounds like it is a mug's game to play the guessing game!
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Trying to guess what is going on inside a politically motivated Liberals head?! Good luck!
 
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