What is the definition of antique?

[Jager]

Ok, please educate me. What defines an antique? Is it stricly age or are there other factors.

I have an Winchester 1892 that has a 1910 manufacture date....will this be an antique when it turns a 100 in 2010?

 

[peckerwood]

Lookup the SOR 98-464...Regulations prescribing antiques...also look at the criminal code.

 

[Republiman]

No, your rifle will unfortunately not be an antique. Ammunition is still widely available for it and it's also a repeating firearm, so it is not an antique. The date before which a gun is an antique (1898) does not vary.

 

[tiriaq]

To hope to qualify as an antique, a firearm must have been made prior to 1898, and meet other criteria. There are "prescribed antiques" and "deemed antiques". Prescribed antiques are those which use loose powder and projectile. Any such pre-98 firearm automatically has antique status. Deemed antiques are cartridge firearms which qualify under other rules. But no repeating centrefire rifle qualifies as an antique, regardless of age. So under the existing law, your rifle will never qualify as an antique.

 

[Jager]

Thanks for the replies. Like I said, I'm "un-educated".

 

[peckerwood]

The SOR 98 464...Google is your friend... Link Here

Regulations Prescribing Antique Firearms
PRESCRIPTION

1. The firearms listed in the schedule are antique firearms for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition "antique firearm" in subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code.

COMING INTO FORCE

2. These Regulations come into force on December 1, 1998. SOR/98-472, s. 3.

SCHEDULE
(Section 1)
BLACK POWDER REPRODUCTIONS

1. A reproduction of a flintlock, wheel-lock or matchlock firearm, other than a handgun, manufactured after 1897.

RIFLES

2. A rifle manufactured before 1898 that is capable of discharging only rim-fire cartridges, other than 22 Calibre Short, 22 Calibre Long or 22 Calibre Long Rifle cartridges.

3. A rifle manufactured before 1898 that is capable of discharging centre-fire cartridges, whether with a smooth or rifled bore, having a bore diameter of 8.3 mm or greater, measured from land to land in the case of a rifled bore, with the exception of a repeating firearm fed by any type of cartridge magazine.

SHOTGUNS

4. A shotgun manufactured before 1898 that is capable of discharging only rim-fire cartridges, other than 22 Calibre Short, 22 Calibre Long or 22 Calibre Long Rifle cartridges.

5. A shotgun manufactured before 1898 that is capable of discharging centre-fire cartridges, other than 10, 12, 16, 20, 28 or 410 gauge cartridges.

HANDGUNS

6. A handgun manufactured before 1898 that is capable of discharging only rim-fire cartridges, other than 22 Calibre Short, 22 Calibre Long or 22 Calibre Long Rifle cartridges.

7. A handgun manufactured before 1898 that is capable of discharging centre-fire cartridges, other than a handgun designed or adapted to discharge 32 Short Colt, 32 Long Colt, 32 Smith and Wesson, 32 Smith and Wesson Long, 32-20 Winchester, 38 Smith and Wesson, 38 Short Colt, 38 Long Colt, 38-40 Winchester, 44-40 Winchester, or 45 Colt cartridges.