Rimfire barrel length laws

[Cameron SS]

wow....talk about the land of confusion.

Cheers!!

You want to really cook your noodle you can try unpacking the conditions on your registration certificate for whether or not you need to report a change of configuration that results in an Restricted firearm becoming Non Restricted...

 

[chillyrabbit]

Actually not. A centre fire semi auto with a short barrel is restricted. ARs are already restricted by name. So a 20" barrel AR that undergoes a barrel swap to 14.5" does not actually change classification.

restricted firearm means

(a) a handgun that is not a prohibited firearm,

(b) a firearm that

(i) is not a prohibited firearm,

(ii) has a barrel less than 470 mm in length, and

(iii) is capable of discharging centre-fire ammunition in a semi-automatic manner,

(c) a firearm that is designed or adapted to be fired when reduced to a length of less than 660 mm by folding, telescoping or otherwise, or

(d) a firearm of any other kind that is prescribed to be a restricted firearm; (arme à feu à autorisation restreinte)

Would I think over rule the restricted classification. Otherwise people would be cutting a lot of AR-15 barrels, instead of buying new ones. Or if something got a NR M1 carbine and wanted to return back to the original R length (which people have done) are breaking the law when they re-register their apparently "prohibited firearm".

Previous thread asking about replacing a short barrel.
Tiriaq's response

Dlask would also have to be run out of business for selling or assembling prohibited firearms since they sell loads of custom SBR 10/22's.

TL;DR replacing a part with a brand new short part is legal, modifying an existing part to be short is not.

 

[Smitsauce]

Barrel length resulting in a classification of restricted only pertains to center-fire semi-auto.

Modified barrels result in prohibited.

you can not MODIFY a barrel by CUTTING, SAWING, or any other modification such that it is less than 18".

SO far, no court has been asked to clarify whether substituting a factory barrel counts as "any other modification". Considering the end result is the same, its hard to see why they wouldn't.

SHHHHHHH!!!!!

You'll give the horse cops their next "Screw over all the legal gun owners" project to work on, contort, spin, modify, stretch, outright lie about, then shove up all of our asses sideways as if it is actual law!!!!!

 

[Wendell]

I fail to understand the 18" thing. I can go buy a factory 16" and install it but cant have a gunsmith cut a 22" bbl down to 16" ??? Whats the reasoning behind this?

It's just because of the way that the law was written. The letter of the law. If Bill Blair had written the law, it'd look very different.

He's working on re-writing the Firearms Act now. Give him a few months.

 

[elimsprint]

It's just because of the way that the law was written. The letter of the law. If Bill Blair had written the law, it'd look very different.

He's working on re-writing the Firearms Act now. Give him a few months.

Hopefully that is all the time he has left!

 

[pazzo]

For clarification, take a bolt action 22LR with a factory 22” barrel, for example - can it be cut down to 18” or does it have to be 18.5”?

 

[tiriaq]

For clarification, take a bolt action 22LR with a factory 22” barrel, for example - can it be cut down to 18” or does it have to be 18.5”?

Semi auto centerfire, 18 1/2" for n-r status. Everything else, 18".

 

[pazzo]

Semi auto centerfire, 18 1/2" for n-r status. Everything else, 18".

Thanks tiriaq.