STANAG Mags in MVP

[cr5]

I'm just kinda curious,
Why is this such a big deal?
It's a bolt action rifle, not an assault rifle.
Buy ten LAR pistol mags and go play.
How hot do you want to get your barrel?
I would hope people that buy one of these (I looked at one today and was very tempted) look at them as a precision varmint rifle that just so happens to take cheap and plentiful AR mags and not a rifle to run as many rounds through as fast as possible.

 

[Brian46]

less reloading because I am lazy

 

[Hitzy]

Have you read this yet?
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/bulletins/bus-ent/20110323-72-eng.htm

3. Magazines designed or manufactured for both centrefire calibre semiautomatic rifles and other (non-semiautomatic) rifles

Magazines designed to contain centrefire cartridges and designed or manufactured for use in a semiautomatic rifle are limited to five cartridges. However, magazines designed to contain centrefire cartridges and designed or manufactured for use in a rifle other than a semiautomatic or automatic rifle, do not have a regulated capacity. Magazines that are designed or manufactured for use in both semiautomatic rifles and other (non-semiautomatic) rifles are subject to the semiautomatic rifle limit of five cartridges.

Example:
Remington model 7615 pump action rifle chambered for 223 Remington caliber:

the 10 round magazine is prohibited
the five round magazine is unregulated

 

[Hitzy]

A few years ago someone lost a #### load of money trying to bring in 20 round AIA mags, I believe they were all seized as prohibited devices even though they were stamped AIA RIFLE ...

 

[hbean]

The so call loophole is slowly being shut down by the CFC, we see it in the E Lander or CAA ( can't remember) 50 cal mags being classify as "dual purpose" mag and deem prohibited, unless someone have eniugh money to challenge that in court, that will be the way they will control what we will be able to play with in Canada.

 

[cr5]

The so call loophole is slowly being shut down by the CFC, we see it in the E Lander or CAA ( can't remember) 50 cal mags being classify as "dual purpose" mag and deem prohibited, unless someone have enough money to challenge that in court, that will be the way they will control what we will be able to play with in Canada.

If they do that all the people who bought Beowulf mags at $100+ each are sure gonna feel the pain.
I've always thought those guys were nuts anyway. $100+ for a stamp on a $20 magazine? Not for me. I'll just change mags more often and own 5-6 Pmags for the price of one Beowulf.
Retailers of those mags sure saw you coming and are retiring early off you. Cost them $5 to make that magazine.

We should put all that money people are spending on these mags towards lawyers to fight to have out stupid mag capacity laws thrown out. The only people it affects are law abiding Canadian sport shooters, criminals don't care if it's illegal to drill out a rivet, they are already breaking the law using a firearm in a crime. What's one more law broken to someone like that?

 

[loki_81]

we see it in the E Lander or CAA ( can't remember) 50 cal mags being classify as "dual purpose" mag and deem prohibited

In that case the information is public prior to when it typically should have been, and of course now there is a general freak out.

The LAR-15, and AT-15 pistol mags all went through development stages in which the RCMP had review and input throughout. The public didn't hear about it, but those mags went through design changes at the specification of the firearms lab, and had to prove their design from the ground up for being purpose built for a pistol. Questar and ATRS didn't publish their process during the development so as to work with the firearms lab, but it's safe to say there were some hurdles in bringing the product to market.

All is not lost, there is no change of law, the .50beo mags in question just need to take further steps through the process. Some would say a bit less publicly so the lab doesn't get blasted by the public while still performing their analysis .