Sounds like California and Canada are like twin communist countries.
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <timberwolf@wheeldog.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M1 Carbine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bolton8@juno.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 7:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] M1 Carbine
>
>
> > Would one of our esteemed Canadian listers please confirm or debunk, the
> > following tidbit which I received from an associate of mine in
> > Mississauga Ontario:
> >
> > "The Canadian government has declared all nonoperational, non-firing
> > DEWAT display firearms as 'prohibited weapons' and therefore severely
> > restricted and/or illegal to possess."
> >
> > Somehow this sounds so ludicrous that it may be true. If it is the
> > truth, how did such a restriction come about? Thank you in advance for
> > your assistance.
>
> One more thing in addition to my other post. Let's say you have a nice
pile
> of Bren parts, but your receiver is hacked up beyond belief. You purchase
a
> replica receiver from someone like Aardvark or Sarco or whoever and
> reconstruct your Bren for display on your Universal Carrier. 'Course,
your
> barrel's still been TIG'd to death and wouldn't pass so much as wind, and
> the weapon's been welded to prohibit disassembly, but would the fact it
has
> a replica receiver bureaucratically deem it a replica, or a dewat?
>
> I'm sure Ottawa wanted to ban dewats right alongside replicas, and for the
> same specious reasoning, but someone must've pointed out that if owners of
> 'heirloom' weapons now falling within the proscribed categories didn't
have
> an 'out' to allow them to retain their artifacts (i.e., weld them up),
then
> the howls of protest would've been that much louder. I truly think that's
> the _only_ reason we're still allowed to possess dewats, much to the
chagrin
> of our founding fathers. And voters.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy Hill
> MVPA 9211
> Vancouver, B.C.
>
>
>
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