What makes a rifle restricted?

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During my safety course, the instructor didn't really get into too much detail about restricted rifles. I asked why the AR-15 was restricted, and the answer I got was basically, "Because of the way it looks".

I had kind of assumed from this (from looking at pics of restricted vs non-restricted) that if I rifle had a pistol grip, it might be restricted.

However, I was looking at the M14 section on Marstar, and they're selling stocks and pistol grips that make it look near as damn it to an assault rifle to me, presumably it's still an M14, and therefore unrestricted.

Can anyone explain this to me? Is there simply a list of rifles that are deemed "restricted", or is there some criteria to determine the status of the rifle? Can I make an AR-15 into an unrestricted, or an M14 into a restricted?

I'd appreciate any clarification that anyone can offer in this topic that's been murky to me at best thus far.

Cheers.
 
Why? Because. That's why.
The AR is restricted because it is not prohibited. It was the Gov't. intent to prohibit the AR, along with the other similar rifles, but did not because the DCRA made the case that the AR was used for competitive target shooting.
Selection for prohibition was made on the basis of appearance. Photos in a popular annual publication were screened, the scary looking rifles were identified.
Rifles that didn't exist when the legislation was enacted are generally restricted or non-restricted on the basis of barrel length, except for a few that were prohibited, on the basis of ease of conversion to full auto, etc.
Consequently there are all sorts of anomalies.
 
Definition of a restricted rifle.
"A semi-automatic, centre-fire firearm with a barrel length less than 470 mm that is not a prohibited firearm...A firearm that can fire after being reduced, by folding, telescoping or otherwise, to an overall length of less than 660 mm(26")...Any firearm prescribed under the Criminal Code regulations to be restricted..."
The list of restricted by name rifles is here.
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/fs-fd/rp-eng.htm
"...Can I make an AR-15 into an unrestricted..." No. Declared restricted by name. As is any variant, including .22's.
"...an M14 into a restricted?..." M14's are prohibited. M305/M14S Norinco's and Springfield M1A's are not M14's. Putting a barrel shorter than 18.5"(470mm) on any semi-auto centre fire will make it restricted. Why you would want to is another thing.
 
Its all at the stroke of the pen from the ' man ' I still can't wrap my head around the logic, you take the rifle that started the whole C68 the mini 14 and it remains untouched yet the 'same rifle' ( laymans view) the Ar15 goes restricted , you can own a M14 (M305)yet cant own a FnC1 , you can own a 10/22 but not a GSG9, you can own a 1187 but not a SPAS 12 you can own a Tavor but not a Steyr Aug.....You will go insane trying to figure it out
 
because the liberals said so!!!! I cannot believe the liberals just bought a bi election in TO. Unreal!!!!!! it cost 15 million to get a seat as MP brutal people in general are so stupid. I want to go back to afghanistan were it is simple and dumb people are shot.
 
sunray said:
"...an M14 into a restricted?..." M14's are prohibited. M305/M14S Norinco's and Springfield M1A's are not M14's. Putting a barrel shorter than 18.5"(470mm) on any semi-auto centre fire will make it restricted. Why you would want to is another thing.
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I was referring to the M14S.

So....to get this straight:

Restricted:
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Non-Restricted:
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Prohibited:
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It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, so I guess I won't bother trying to make sense of it, and if I'm unclear before buying a rifle, I'll just ask. Going with the "Bruce Willis" rule seems to be the best plan here.
 
When they put the blindfold on and pull the name out of the hat that is the one that is restricted.
 
"...can't wrap my head around the logic..." No logic involved. It's all about appearances. It's rumoured that the Socialist F**ks took a copy of one of the 'annual's' and made anything black with a pistol grip and a 20 round mag, evil.
A real M14 is a very evil FA battle rifle. A semi'd M14 is evil because the idiots think it's easy to make it FA. Takes more than just the selector bits. Hanging stuff on an M305/M1A doesn't change the rifle into a select fire.
Also rumoured that the AR15 was seen, in a movie long before the current idiocy, to be turned into an FA by just dropping in the parts. The inside receiver dimensions are much smaller than an M16 receiver.
"...the Mini 14..." It's a commercial hunting rifle. Still boggles the mind that it was left alone after the Lapine Affair. Mind you, Ruger might have paid the Socialist F**ks to leave it alone. Pure speculation, but suspicious deals happened under Chretein's gang. The CF wanted to upgrade their office software. Had been using WP for years. Bill Gates had a 30 minute, closed door, meeting with Chretein and the CF was forced to buy MS Office afterwards. The fact that WP was Canadian owned at the time didn't matter.
 
What makes a rifle restricted? The gub'ment.... and like most things they do, it's done for what it perceives to be good politics ... not logic, not common sense, not intelligence, not public safety, nor any other defensible reason.
 
AJCrowley said:
I was referring to the M14S.

So....to get this straight:

Restricted:
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Non-Restricted:
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Prohibited:
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It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, so I guess I won't bother trying to make sense of it, and if I'm unclear before buying a rifle, I'll just ask. Going with the "Bruce Willis" rule seems to be the best plan here.
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This post amuses and disappoints me on so many levels at the same time....

You laid out the nonsense pretty good in just those 3 pictures...
 
What makes even less sense is how named firearms were determined to be "variants" of prohibited and restricted firearms. Many have operating mechanisms which are different than those they are deemed to be variants of and are totaly non-interchangable parts or of different design lineage.

For example the .22lr toy lookalikes of the AR15, or the idea that the Dragunov is an AK variant.
 
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