Transporting restricted handgun AKA "automatic firearm"

[pazzo]

I haven't put much thought into this for the last several years, but it occurred to me (after a Wikipedia search) that the Canadian Storing, Transporting and Displaying Firearms pamphlet wouldn't put this in there if it wasn't important. And given that not many people in Canada go to the range with fully-automatic firearms, it must mean semi-auto.

What is the deal with this (the part about removing the bolt/bolt carrier...)? I've personally never heard of anybody worrying about it or police busting people for not doing it:

Wikipedia:

An automatic firearm is a firearm that fires continuously when the trigger is pulled, rather than firing a single shot per trigger pull.
The term can be used to refer to semi-automatic firearms, which fire one shot per pull of the trigger, or full automatic firearms, which will continue to load and fire ammunition until the trigger...

An "automatic pistol" or an "automatic shotgun" generally refers to a semi-automatic design

 

[CeeZer]

Isn't key word there - PROHIBITED?

 

[pazzo]

Looks like restricted AND prohibited to me

 

[#1bcshooter]

It is for Full Auto , Bolt must be removed when stored or transported .

 

[pazzo]

^^ How do you know that?
We (meaning 99.9% of Canadians) can't have full-auto. And there is no mention of it elsewhere in any parts of this or other transportation pamphlets...

Did you read the Wikipedia part at the bottom?

 

[Kodiak Outpost]

As mentioned, it is for full-auto guns. "Semi-automatic" is not "automatic". Auto-loader perhaps, but not "automatic".

Also, just so we don't get bogged down in semantics (especially wikipedia based!), the intention of the law is regarding fully auto prohibited rifles.

 

[PileBuck]

But people do transport and ship prohibited automatic firearms to each other. I believe that is who this pamphlet refers to

 

[#1bcshooter]

^^ How do you know that?
We (meaning 99.9% of Canadians) can't have full-auto. And there is no mention of it elsewhere in any parts of this or other transportation pamphlets...

Did you read the Wikipedia part at the bottom?

Wikipedia is not the firearms act . I've been around long enough to know about full auto ownership & the regulations that go with it . At one time you could transport them to a range to shoot but that day is long gone . You can still transport them to a gun smith or gun show

 

[pazzo]

Fair enough. Thanks for the replies!!

I knew that semi-auto's were good to go, but I was confused as to why they weren't more specific in the pamphlet

 

[enefgee]

There are a surprising number of (generally) older fellows in Canada who do indeed posess automatic firearms, the only reason that it seems odd is that the rest of us have been educated under a revised version of history that says no one can and no one does own "full" automatic firearms. If you change the teaching, you do indeed change the perceived truth. By the time I retire I would expect (at the rate we're sliding) that telling someone you owned firearms will illicit a wide eyed stare.

 

[CeeZer]

And there are way too many people in Canada who believe we are not allowed handguns in Canada either, it's all about how and who and for what intent misinforms public.
If they repeat this nonsense over and over again - uneducated start believing it.