Exactly. Until machined to accept a cartridge and /or fit to a receiver, they are not actual gun barrels. Similar to an unfinished Ar-15 receiver. If you were found with one that you created because you took a saw to barrel or parted one off from a barrel you were chambering, you would have a legitimate reason for its creation, and not one associated with making an attempt at anything illegal.
Who can legally machine an. 22 barrel from a blank?
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Exactly. Until machined to accept a cartridge and /or fit to a receiver, they are not actual gun barrels. Similar to an unfinished Ar-15 receiver. If you were found with one that you created because you took a saw to barrel or parted one off from a barrel you were chambering, you would have a legitimate reason for its creation, and not one associated with making an attempt at anything illegal.
O your not going to jail , your getting a lawyers bill for a stupid amount.
I was under the impression that gunsmiths often save the chamber end of the barrel blank because it has the markings of manufacturing, cal, twist rate, bore and land diameters. Its also handy to save a short stub and run the chamber reamer in it to make a case gauge. I've done that.
Somebody was hand-wringing, just a wee lot.
There are a LOT of problems with our current lot of gun laws, but folks making up new problems does not really help anything.
The irony, too, that you worry about a stub of cut off barrel while making (you say) a Gatling Gun's barrels. That's just funny!
I have actually seen a couple different Gatling Models made, and man, do they look so cool, with a bunch of polished brass and blued steel!
Unfinished AR lowers I believe are prohibited in Canada. We cannot use logic when interpreting any firearm laws, it's the sad truth...
In my opinion, it has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with "trust" . LPC didn't trust us to not-concealed carry or shoot people on the street so they prohibited sub 4.2", 25 + 32 cal and a lot of rifles.
Ask them to use logic and you hear gems like JT's "if not 30 years ago, we must do It now" . What? One guy did a bad thing 30 years ago, you prohibited billions of dollars of firearms (with no reports on total registered vs totals) due to this, and have absolutely zero idea how well or bad our laws have actually worked.
They look at us for criminal behaviour.
Logic doesn't really fit into this
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That’s another one that is just some dipsheets opinion, the day before they decided they were prohibited machine gun receivers their opinion was that they were scrap metal.
You can keep the cut offs at any length, provided they are not threaded or setup to fit a receiver ( pined or pressed or other non threaded methods) if you want to use them on a build they have to be blank cutoffs, you then need to follow handgun laws/NR laws or R laws when threading them.
If they are a factory barrel cut off, you cant thread it or set it up for a receiver.
30" lee metford barrel cut to 18" leaves a 12" section,.that cant be setup for a receiver (but you can keep it as a tube). But a 30" shilen blank cut to 18" the 12" cut off could be used on a NON semi NR centerfire or NON semi R centerfire or any rimfire ( provided correct bore)
If they are a factory barrel cut off, you cant thread it or set it up for a receiver.
30" lee metford barrel cut to 18" leaves a 12" section,.that cant be setup for a receiver (but you can keep it as a tube). But a 30" shilen blank cut to 18" the 12" cut off could be used on a NON semi NR centerfire or NON semi R centerfire or any rimfire ( provided correct bore)
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well maybe just the way i read it, it seems the cut off would be a pre manufactured barrel that was altered to be below the 18"(non semi NR lets say) so then i believe the cutoff would then no longer to be able to be used as a barrel. as a piece of pipe with rifling i believe its fine
if your able to use pre manufactured barrels that were cut below 18" then why cant you cut a 30" lee metford barrel into 2 15" barrel and use both? or could use as long as your didn't use either barrel on original intended fire arm, like instead use both 15" pieces on say 2 lugers?
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i turned a 10" barrel from a blank for my mossberg 702, i wouldnt cut a factory barrel down to 10" though, personally i believe its what you start with is what matters, but who really knows after the fact what ti was to begin with
when dealing with a prohibited barreled handgun removing and changing the barrel you have a unaltered part that can be reattached to another receiver/frame and that is why it becomes a prohibited device, plain and simple. There is no magic or mumble jumble involved.
