The homesteader carbine now has an FRT for Canada. Available for import $749.99 USD

TravisJM said:
Would it not if you welded it on though?

I'm not interested in one just wanted to understand the situation legally.
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No, it's about the rifled barrel length from chamber to muzzle. Not overall length that may include a brake/compensator.
 
I think the demand is high enough for Dlask to make a batch of NR barrels for those who want them. Unless I missed something
 
chillyrabbit said:
Barrel length

(2) For the purposes of this Part, the length of a barrel of a firearm is

(a) in the case of a revolver, the distance from the muzzle of the barrel to the breach end immediately in front of the cylinder, and

(b) in any other case, the distance from the muzzle of the barrel to and including the chamber,

but does not include the length of any component, part or accessory including any component, part or accessory designed or intended to suppress the muzzle flash or reduce recoil.

Basically one continuous piece is what the barrel is and welding or sticking anything onto a barrel doesn't count towards barrel length.

Criminal code of Canada
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Buuuuuuut what if we weld on more barrel that is reamed in the same diameter as a throat reamer??? ;)
 
I heard "Homesteader" carbine, and instantly thought of a lever gun in .44, .44-40, or .45 Colt.

Henry always has been a marketing company more than a gun builder, marketing on emotions and historic day-dreaming.

When my great-grand parents homsteded in SK or my Great-great-grand parents on my dads side homesteaded here in Ontario, Semi-autos were not even imagined (nor were lever guns for that matter).

Nice looking rifle that I would be glad to own (if it is all steel), but they could have came up with a better name.

PS: Just read "Anodized finish" so that means more pot-metal. No thanks.
 
Meroh said:
I heard "Homesteader" carbine, and instantly thought of a lever gun in .44, .44-40, or .45 Colt.

Henry always has been a marketing company more than a gun builder, marketing on emotions and historic day-dreaming.

When my great-grand parents homsteded in SK or my Great-great-grand parents on my dads side homesteaded here in Ontario, Semi-autos were not even imagined (nor were lever guns for that matter).

Nice looking rifle that I would be glad to own (if it is all steel), but they could have came up with a better name.

PS: Just read "Anodized finish" so that means more pot-metal. No thanks.
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Quite a bit going on here.
First off, it's not the 1890's anymore grandpa, self loading actions now exist, 9x19mm is ubiquitous and cheap, and if your ancestors could have gotten that caliber in a reliable firearm for a fraction of the price of the other three you listed for harvesting small game and dealing with varmints they would have done so. The "marketing" is in fact an excellent, literal suggestion, in the modern Era having a light, handy, long gun for the homestead that takes magazines and ammo lots of people have handy makes a tremendous amount of sense.

Secondly, if you want to be so pedantic about historical accuracy and terminology then two of the three calibers you listed are equally inappropriate for the heyday of leverguns, 45 colt wasn't chambered in rifles until modern times, nor was 44mag invented yet.

Lastly, please define what you think "pot metal" is.
Anodizing is an electrochemical process that is performed to harden and passivate the surface of aluminum. For consistent results it usually has to be applied to high quality aluminum allows which means the reciever are almost certainly machined out of billet. If you're going to wrote off everything with a aluminum receiver as being unacceptable, lmao. OK, your loss.

Also lol at the idea Henry is less of a "gun builder" than any other company just because they cater to a specific niche. Every company does that.
 
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Meroh said:
I heard "Homesteader" carbine, and instantly thought of a lever gun in .44, .44-40, or .45 Colt.

Henry always has been a marketing company more than a gun builder, marketing on emotions and historic day-dreaming.

When my great-grand parents homsteded in SK or my Great-great-grand parents on my dads side homesteaded here in Ontario, Semi-autos were not even imagined (nor were lever guns for that matter).

Nice looking rifle that I would be glad to own (if it is all steel), but they could have came up with a better name.

PS: Just read "Anodized finish" so that means more pot-metal. No thanks.
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Anodized means aluminum. Like every AR15 ever produced.

Bradley
 
Shows how stupid Canadian laws are.

How many IQ points below room temperature do you have to be to look at the homesteader and think “yup that’s practically a handgun”
 
I really like the idea of this gun but to echo what most people have said, restricted=no interest whatsoever. As for a domestic barrel maker jumping in, if this was an all-steel gun I could maybe see making that extra investment. I've really wanted to like Henry's and overall, am warming-up to say...aluminum receiver-ed Mossberg shotguns for instance. I've tried to like Henry rimfires, is the receiver on this 9mm carbine the same material?
 
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