Steyr AUG

The word "variant" means we will never see another AUG for sale in Canada... to civilians.
 
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You guys had me going for a minute here... starting to dream about owning a Steyr AUG A3 in Canada! I have three SSG 69's and a Scout. I Love Steyr!

Sadly, reality kicked in and I had to go look at the regs. There is nothing in there about only FA and CA AUGs being prohibited. All Steyr AUGs are prohibited.

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-98-462/FullText.html

What is listed under the heading "Prohibited Firearms" is:

"The firearm of the design commonly known as the Steyr AUG rifle, and any variant or modified version of it."

That is completely conclusive guys. I wish it weren't, but...

If the Steyr USR cannot be imported, no AUG A3 ever will.

If .22LR versions of the AK-47 and MP5 are prohib., this whole thing is a dead issue.
 
Well if you bring in the new US version and the internals are different, could they not make it a civi version and name it something else this would make it that it is not an AUG anymore or even a variant, the actually body of the rifle has changed anyways as well.
 
Spike said:
Ah the good old days when I could take my Aug out and have fun with full 30 round mags.
Those were the days when your trigger finger would cramp up from pulling the trigger so often.
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So back in the day how did you all go about buying a full auto or AR/AK/AUG?Was there a license, test or qualification? did you need to be a member of a range?

Also did they register them all ( I assumed they registered FA but did they also register the semi varients of AR/AK/FAL/AUG?)

If anyone can answer these questions it would be a big help, I have been searching for a while and I can't find any good information.
 
The steyr site called it " AUG/A3 SA USA: the civilian version of the world famous Stery-Aug" - I won't think the distributor will even bother to try.
 
Leibermuster said:
Well if you bring in the new US version and the internals are different, could they not make it a civi version and name it something else this would make it that it is not an AUG anymore or even a variant, the actually body of the rifle has changed anyways as well.
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Something similar was tried with Saiga rifles.

There's a reason we don't see them up here...

Remember, the word "variant or modified version" is broad and far reaching. Re-naming a semi-only version doesn't make it no longer a variant. If it can be determined that it is related to the AUG family of rifles, it will be prohib.
 
mosinmaster said:
So quick to assume that 'I' want to obtain one and don't know our laws. People with the proper licensing can obtain one in Canada. I want to know their experience with this rifle. Unless you can add any experience of yours with the AUG, you're just wasting your time and emotion typing out something irrelevant to this topic.
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No new prohibs can be imported regardless of the Licence a person holds so your original post is 100% waste of time because you clearly don't know the law.
 
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