Wish FAL's were never prohib!

I still own an english L1A1, and yes it pisses me off that I'm not allowed to shoot it legally. The loopy left at its best. The FAL is arguably one of the best semi-auto MBR's ever built............. I'm sorry most of you will never get to fire one.

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I really don't understand why they banned the Fn FAL either. Or the H&K G3, or any other MBR of the time (except for the M14, thank goodness for that). They're not exactly what is stereotyped as a criminal or terrorist weapon.
 
Lefty watched the movie HEAT once too many times. It scared the hell out of them what might happen every time they walked down Bay St.
 
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Lefty watched the movie HEAT once too many times. It scared the hell out of them what might happen every time they walked down Bay St.
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Never saw that movie. But I did see a movie where a pump action shotgun was used to send a man flying through the air and breaking through a solid brickwall. Oh and he didn't have a drop of blood on him either.

There's also a Bollywood movie I saw when I was a kid where a guy used a snub nosed revolver that apparently is also an anti-tank weapon given how the people shot reacted to it.
 
ProudPhoenician said:
Never saw that movie. But I did see a movie where a pump action shotgun was used to send a man flying through the air and breaking through a solid brickwall. Oh and he didn't have a drop of blood on him either.

There's also a Bollywood movie I saw when I was a kid where a guy used a snub nosed revolver that apparently is also an anti-tank weapon given how the people shot reacted to it.
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Heat's gunplay was quite realistic. Michael Mann, the director, is a gun nut. But yeah, there was a FAL in it.
 
I got on the phone once about this and the reason FN's got OIC'd was "there were several groups operating in Canada that had an ultimate motive of freedom for a segment of a south Asian country, and the government did not want Canada to be used as armoury for separatist or terrorist groups"

...or so I was told, then.
 
ipscgraz said:
I got on the phone once about this and the reason FN's got OIC'd was "there were several groups operating in Canada that had an ultimate motive of freedom for a segment of a south Asian country, and the government did not want Canada to be used as armoury for separatist or terrorist groups"

...or so I was told, then.
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Yeah, while they were busy registering restricted rifles and handguns to the religious center at the heart of that particular groups activities, and turning a blind eye to private long range rifle training being sold to members of that group.
 
had a minty early 1956 C 1 with that cute little wood carry handle and nice slotted forestock ...and i had a mint C2A1 ...nice never got to shoot it ...i still have an 8L series C1A1...and an FAL sitting at the ottawa RCMP for the last year checking the conversion from full auto...
 
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Yes you should cry. It is now a worthless safe queen with no resalable market. Investment money down the drain.
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That sounds bitter! There is still a market for them. Limited but still there. My 12.3 FAL has value to me as do most all my firearms. The CPC is mentioning the removal of prohibited class from the firearms act and replacing it with restricted at this years meeting in Alberta. Maybe,just maybe things may change. The LGR took a while but it happened. For the price of an envelope and a few minutes of time let them know that this is the direction that 1.7 million licensed,law abiding firearm owners want things to go.
 
anglia2 said:
I still own an english L1A1, and yes it pisses me off that I'm not allowed to shoot it legally. The loopy left at its best. The FAL is arguably one of the best semi-auto MBR's ever built............. I'm sorry most of you will never get to fire one.

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The best rifle that I ever got to fire,not too great for doing double time with when wearing full webbing,tin helmet,and respirator around an airfield though.
 
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not too great for doing double time with when wearing full webbing,tin helmet,and respirator around an airfield though.
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Try running a mile with one over your head, mag point downward, wearing a beret - still have the dent in my head.

"From this report from the 1980's it sounds like th C1's weren't all that great."

You're going to believe the CBC about guns? - what really sucked was firing thousands of Trudeau rounds through them, the CBC didn't have any issues with that. At the time they (the socialists at the CBC) were busy trying to get Canada out of NATO.
 
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That sounds bitter! There is still a market for them. Limited but still there. My 12.3 FAL has value to me as do most all my firearms. The CPC is mentioning the removal of prohibited class from the firearms act and replacing it with restricted at this years meeting in Alberta. Maybe,just maybe things may change. The LGR took a while but it happened. For the price of an envelope and a few minutes of time let them know that this is the direction that 1.7 million licensed,law abiding firearm owners want things to go.
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Well, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo.
 
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You're going to believe the CBC about guns? - what really sucked was firing thousands of Trudeau rounds through them, the CBC didn't have any issues with that. At the time they (the socialists at the CBC) were busy trying to get Canada out of NATO.
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Trudeau rounds? I once worked a veteran of Cyprus and Bosnia. He told me a lot of entertaining and sometimes disturbing stories. One of the most memorable was about the Trudeau rounds...whereby during an exercise they didn't have any blanks so they had to yell "Bang" each time they fired! He swears it's true!
 
So if the Chinese can make you dudes a Non - restricted, version of a prohib (M14 vs M305), can't you just get them to change the receiver geometry on a FAL and BOOM non-res FAL?
 
The M14 isn't prohibited (it isn't named on the Prohibited Weapons List), just full-auto versions of the M14.

And yes, there are semi-auto military M14s.

But it's doubtful if the RCMP wouldn't declare it a variant of the FN FAL.
 
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