RPD Update.
- Thread starter dangertree
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I recently found a semi auto m1919 to tide me over until my RPD arrives 
It even has a FRT# but I was told it cannot be exported from US or imported in to CA because it doesn't have a receiver made from five new sides WTF. There is no such thing, I wonder if this will eventually be there excuse why we can't have our RPD's.
It even has a FRT# but I was told it cannot be exported from US or imported in to CA because it doesn't have a receiver made from five new sides WTF. There is no such thing, I wonder if this will eventually be there excuse why we can't have our RPD's.
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I recently found a semi auto m1919 to tide me over until my RPD arrives
If you understood how a 1919 is built, vs how a RPD is built, you'd understand why the RPD would never have the 1919 "problem" of 5 sides.
The receiver of the 1919 is made up of 5 parts riveted together... In the USA, the receiver in a 1919 is considered to be the right side plate... The other plate, the bottom as well as the front and rear are not considered part of the receiver and when you make a semi-auto 1919, you can use these parts but need a newly made semi-auto only right side plate in order for the gun to be nice and legal... But for export and import purposes, the fact that the guns are made from formerly full-auto parts seem to be alarming to some paper pushers... I would guess, not being familiar with the RPD receivers, that they are probably not riveted and that the semi-auto receivers are all new and do not use any parts from a formerly full-auto receiver...
The RCMP are just running the clock on this one re. the RPD. I predict they will either say here is the FRT and you can bring them in in the last weeks of the run up to election day to throw a hot potato into the CPC lap and give ammo to the dippers/liberals, general anti gun nutjobs and media. OR they are awaiting a new and far more compliant government (again dipper/liberal or bastard coalition) installed to do the RCMPs bidding.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
1919 receiver has 5 pieces of steel mated together. 4 walls and a bottom. Rpd is one piece of milled metal. Not 5. As mentioned before the US definition of a receiver is different than the Canadian definition. If one of the 5 walls of a 1919 comes from a full auto parts kit, it will be deemed converted. The rpd receivers are newly made semi auto only and won't accept full auto parts.
Apples to oranges.
Which they are not or some of the rulings that happened in the past would never have happened if they were in fact "informed" decisions.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
The update is... "The RCMP still have not completed their examination and no FRT is published yet."
As soon as it is published, AE will be shipping. Those are the only steps left.
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