Unknown m16 style .22 with wood furnature
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The AP80 is prohibited as it is the same exact rifle, from the same assembly line as the Mitchell Arms AK22, the MA AK 22 being a "named prohibited rifle", thus making the AP74 a variant of a named prohibited rifle and prohibited.
The AP74 is listed, by name, as a restricted firearm by Order in Council with the other rifles named under the Ar15 heading.
Thank you politicians. Nothing to do with the mountie lab. The rulings were politician made.
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No big deal. It is restricted. Just register it.
sillymike
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Yeah... and RCMP just stood by and did nothing because it's not part of their job description... right?
And those poor RCMP folks should be let off the hook because when they do confiscate one of these armless 22lr, they'll describe it as an 'assault weapon'... but it's OK, they were just following orders... right?
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They did do something. They enforced the law, as required by their oath, as it was written by the politicians via order in council.
The law says the Mitchell Arms AK22 and it's variants are prohibited. Its on the same list as all the other "AK" looking guns that the politicians banned by Order in Council. The politicians, not the mounties, banned them for looks.
The AP74 is an identical copy, right down to being made in the same arsenal, on the same assembly line, by likely the same employees that made the MA AK22. The only thing different is a name plate. The AP74 is an exact mechanical copy of the banned by OIC AK22. Hence, as a variant of the AK22, politicians have made the AP74 prohibited too.
But because it is on the AK list, the media dumbed it down as an "AK variant".
So, the law was written by politicians, and the RCMP have to follow the law.
Do you get mad at the messenger, or do you get mad at the ones who authored it and thus made the rcmp deliver it? The politicians made the rules, they can change the rules. The rcmp didn't make the rules, can't change the rules and must follow the rules as poorly written as they are.
All this pressure is put on the rcmp, and the politicians ride that public bandwagon all while dodging responsibility. And they know it.
So ya, the rcmp did do their job, as prescibed by laws passed by politicians. Politicians who later claimed to be innocent, and chastised those mean mounties for such classifications and then proclaimed themselves the heros by proposing new legislation to appease gun owners.
Wag the dog.
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Yes. Go read the OIC in the Firearms Act. AP74 is Restricted by name. The AP80 is Prohibited as a variant of the Mitchell Arms AK22, which itself is a named Prohibited rifle in the OIC.
The Firearms Act is the only "article" that means anything.
