Very cheap prohibs

NAA said:
If it was a S&W, Ruger or Colt 12(6) then $50 is a smokin' deal.

Personally, even for $50 I'd pass on a Taurus, Rossi, Charter Arms or the like, though.

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I don't have 12 anything, but when it comes to the name on it; S&W, Colt, Dan Wesson, and finally Ruger.
Any other revolving handgun with the T word on it would get a complete pass from me.
Those two others as well.

My only other exclusions from this are cap & ball handguns and one rimfire caliber Spanish Star for my children to learn with, that happens to have 1911 positioned controls.
 
It's a real shame that in the US, they consider a 4" handgun to be a full size gun and anything bigger to be a target gun. And here the 4 ", the most common size around is prohibited ??? What a joke and not one good reason why it is so ! There is no way in hell that by being 1/4 " shorter will make the gun more dangerous or easier to conceal, which we can't do anyways ! Looking at our laws the way they are right now, the only thing we can do with a handgun is go to the range. The only thing our law does in reality is remove variety from us, nothing else. Just look at the choices of handguns we could buy and enjoy at the range if we were allowed a 4" full size gun !!! Whoever writes our laws is out of touch with reality if they feel that removing a 4" handgun from our possible choices does any good of any kind ! IMO
 
I went to the show as well. didnt find what i was looking for. I am pretty sure my son had more fun than me, he would prettly much stop and try to look through scopes without touching the gun. it was funny. He got a high 5 from one of the dealers when they overheard him point out the rascal that was just like his.

I used to like looking into the glass cases of firearms i will never own, now it just irritates me to think that they will be destroyed for no good reason.
 
I find this amazing at times, I remember seeing about 6 months after the law passed, a major distributor had French M1935S pistols on for a give away price basically of $50.00 probably just to get rid of them. I recently seen one up for sale for 8 times the price!
 
Many for sale and nobody to buy them was and is the whole point. The Socialist F**ks don't care how long it takes to make Canada the first democratic country where private ownership of ANY firearm is a thing of the past.
 
crash277 said:
I went to the show as well. didnt find what i was looking for. I am pretty sure my son had more fun than me, he would prettly much stop and try to look through scopes without touching the gun. it was funny. He got a high 5 from one of the dealers when they overheard him point out the rascal that was just like his.

I used to like looking into the glass cases of firearms i will never own, now it just irritates me to think that they will be destroyed for no good reason.
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I was there with my dad and my daughter (my son wanted some grandma time). I didn't even but a bullet. Nothing.
 
If only there was a source for reasonably cheap surplus barrels in Canada. It would make the prospect of rebarreling some of these a lot more feasible.

I'm currently on the lookout for non-prohib length barrels for a model 10 or a Ruger Security Six.

I'm looking to get my first revolver and I'd much prefer a fixed sight half lug gun in .38 spec/.357. Unfortunately most of these seem to be 4" or less and so are out of my reach.

I don't mean to sidetrack this thread but can prohibs be registered as restricted with the frame only? Or must they be rebarreled first before they can qualify?
 
ChiliDawg said:
Yes, so long as he is the son and the firearm was made before 1946, it can be inherited. He would then get 12(6) on the possession side of his Licence, but he would not be able to acquire any more unless the father bought them fo him. The father does not have to die to pass along his Prohibs. if it is not .32 or .25 calibre and was made in 1946 or after it may able to have the barrel replaced to reclassified to restricted. Any post 1945 firearm in .32 or .25 would have to be sold to another 12(6) holder, welded up, or turned in to police.
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12(7) actually......
 
My 18 year old just received his 12(7) designation for a PPK . Two more boys are getting the same deal when they turn 18 so are thier kids if Grandpa is still around . Gonna be buying a lot of 12(7) eligible Prohibs. That means Prohibs are gonna be around for a couple if more generation .
 
True! Or we can not give up and keep pressure on CPC . To remove classification or at. Very least get rid of Prohib class. Then I would load up on What is Currently considered Prohib and pass on my boys the day they get thier rpal.
 
NAA said:
I think the trick is to find a motivated seller. Some 12(6) holders have a lot of 'stock' and sometimes look to lighten the load a bit. Awhile back I sold a Model 19 2 1/2" snub and a Model 13 4" for ~ $275 each. They were just taking up room in the safe. I didn't 'need' to sell them but figured it was time to move them along. At the same time I also sold off a couple nice Brownings - a 1910 in .32ACP and a Baby in .25ACP, too.

If a mint Model 66 4" showed up for $250 I'd be all over it like a fat kid on a smartie, though. :)

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My seller was "motivated" by the Sûreté du Québec. They told him to either renew his club membership, sell his restricted firearms or have them destroyed. Sad for him but a hell of a deal for me.
 
This whole issue with some guns being prohibited is such a pitiful joke to us all. After we have been completely checked out by our government and given the ok, buy their mighty pen that we could own restricted firearms , BUT, only to take them to a range , then why the hell can't we at the same time own anything with a shorter barrel ? Does anything under the 4 1/4 " mark make them any risker to take to the range to enjoy ?? We don't carry, probably never will be allowed too by the powers at be, so please explain to me and others in common English without all the government BS, why, the prohibited class even exists ??? There is no possible reason except for our government trying to control us, which is what they are doing very well. The only thing we are allowed to do is go to the range, gunsmith and gun show, so how are the prohibited any problem at all ?? The prohibited class should be abolished and rolled into the restricted class, thus making all barrel lengths legal to anyone with a restricted PAL. There you go, common sense at work, no politics involved ! We need smarter people making decisions on what we are allowed to do, because the people that have been doing it have lost their way, big time ! IMHO
 
It was simply a BS move to prohibit a whole group of firearms with the stroke of a pen. There is no legitimate reason for it.

And yes, it should be given the boot.

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Prices are going up probably because guys are re barrelling them in a bid to get them off the chopping block. I'll be doing this with my fathers post war PPK this year.

A rebarrelling might be the only chance for some of these. If some owners don't have anyone to pass them down to (or can't cuz they're post war) and care about saving them then why not just have them re barrelled if possible and reclassified to restricted?

Then you can pass them down, or sell them and probably make a few bucks.
 
Well, since our gun culture follows the US culture as close as possible, most of their rankings and ideas should be followed up here. In the US, they fully consider a handgun with a 4" barrel to be a FULL sized gun , and anything larger to be for target purposes. To say that our minimum size should be larger than their full size just limits the variety that we can buy and use at the range. A 4 " barrel is no more dangerous that a 4.5" barrel and a 5" barrel, since all we can use them for is going to a range and scaring the hell out of some targets! Prohibited class should be abolished 100 %, grandfathered clauses should not (never) come into play, as all restricted firearms are legal at all times ! All collectors and shooters, if they have been checked properly and given a restricted PAL should be able to own any firearm they want, because the bottom line is that we are still so controlled that it in no way creates any safety issues.Again, we can only go to the range, we can't carry so where the hell is the issue, besides a handful of people deciding what we can do , that's the problem and only issue ! Absolute BULL#### ! People flock to our great country so they can be free like us, but sadly in cases like this we are not free, just controlled ! IMHO
 
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