SR22 Pistol with 4" barrel legal? How would I acquire one?

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My understanding is the SR22 pistol is not legal in Canada due to the short length of barrel. However, with this longer 4" barrel:

http://www.twintechtactical.com/SR22-4LB.html

Would that not make the SR22 pistol legal?

Any thoughts or suggestions on how I might acquire such a setup?
 
If that truly does meet our 105mm minimum length, then you would have to get someone like Prophet River or IRunGuns to purchase the pistol in the US and have the longer barrel installed before importing up here. It should be doable but would be expensive by the time it got here. You also might have to wait on the RCMP firearms lab to assign an FRT number to it before the importation would be allowed.

Overall you would probably be better off to buy a standard SR-22 here and have Dlask make you up a 106mm barrel, remove the stock and have it re-classified to restricted.


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mmattockx said:
If that truly does meet our 105mm minimum length, then you would have to get someone like Prophet River or IRunGuns to purchase the pistol in the US and have the longer barrel installed before importing up here. It should be doable but would be expensive by the time it got here. You also might have to wait on the RCMP firearms lab to assign an FRT number to it before the importation would be allowed.
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This is what you would need to do.
 
Is having an FRT assigned typically difficult? I was looking at a .22 pistol, and this was one I was really considering. Or should I just move on?
 
Plinky said:
Is having an FRT assigned typically difficult? I was looking at a .22 pistol, and this was one I was really considering. Or should I just move on?
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No, but it needs to be done by a business. By the time you get a "legal" barrel, export from the US and get it approved here, I would think your looking at something that would be cost prohibitive.
 
Fyn said:
I believe he's talking about the pistol not the rifle

http://www.ruger.com/products/sr22Pistol/models.html
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My apologies, I was thinking of the rifle. It would be nice if Ruger could think up different model names for their guns... In that case my advice on getting an importer to buy the gun and have the aftermarket barrel installed before importation is correct. Waiting for an FRT could take months or years, though.


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Since the stock gun is prohibited you can't get it into Canada to where you can then fit it with the aftermarket longer barrel. So it's a non starter.

To get it into Canada some outfit in the US would need to buy the guns and the barrels and then offer the new setup for sale. Then someone up here like Irunguns would then buy and import this new variation.

But unless someone puts the two together down there and then offers them for sale you won't see such an animal. So best to simply move on.

We've got a pretty good lot of nice rimfire semis anyway. Pick one.
 
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