One thing to remember for those guys in the states that some of the Canadian
and Europeon machinegun"dewats" are not legal in the US if they have an
intact original receiver. It's too late to get into this tonight, but this
can cause some real major problems with BATF. If anyone has a question
email me off line as the last time we got on this the lightening bolts from
on high start going off. Thanks, Howard at DVS, Class III MG dealer and MV
collector.
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <timberwolf@wheeldog.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] dewatt vs replica & STUPID LAWS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pam & Dan" <pamelakg@intergate.bc.ca>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 9:44 AM
> Subject: [MV] dewatt vs replica & STUPID LAWS
>
>
> > Hi list(s), just in case what Geoff wrote wasn't very clear to everyone.
> Up
> > here in Canada you can own and aquire a properly deactivated firearm
> > without any kind of licence. But you can not obtain OR MAKE a repica
> firearm
> > (even if you wanted to make it out of wood or plastic!!!!!). You can
keep
> > any replica's you had at the time this law came in. ( I believe these
have
> > to be destroyed upon your death, you can NOT pass them on to someone
> else)
> > . So again, you can own and buy a dewatt that a one time was REAL but
you
> > can not obtain a replica that was never able to shoot.
>
> Here's the definition of "replica firearm" according to those who believe
> Canada stops somewhere around the Manitoba border (i.e., Federales):
>
> "replica firearm means any device that is designed or intended to exactly
> resemble, or to resemble with near precision, a firearm, and that itself
is
> not a firearm, but does include any such device that is designed or
intended
> to exactly resemble, or to resemble with near precision, an antique
> firearm."
>
> Now, many of the cleverer among us have probably seized on the 'antique
> firearm' aspect by way of exemption for we HMV collectors, but listen to
> this little bureacratic gem:
>
> "antique firearm means:
> a) any firearm manufactured before 1898 that was not designed to
> discharge rim-fire or centre-fire ammunition and has not been redesigned
to
> discharge such ammunition, or
> b) any firearm that is prescribed to be an antique firearm.
>
> There is presumably a list of the latter in the cobwebb'd recesses of some
> Rideau Canal bureacrat's mind, but I've yet to see such in print. I love
> the way they've chosen '1898' as the arbitrary line dividing 'antique'
from
> every other possible adjective; something they should probably pass on to
> all those DMV districts issuing 'Antique' motor-vehicle plates to 1940
> Oldsmobiles.
>
> Encapsulated, this means that the company I work for, in the film
industry,
> now has to ensure there's an on-set armourer present if we send out a
> selection of those cheesy Taiwan-tanium MP40's, but if we send dewat
> versions of the real deal, an armourer need not be present. Thanks,
Ottawa.
> Now if we do props for the Cub Scout pack in Upper Armpit, Saskatchewan,
> we'll have to send dewat M-16's instead of their Toys R Us plastic
> counterparts. Wonder how many in the audience will be thinking Marc
Lepine
> then, eh?
>
> Andy Hill, MVPA 9211, venting a pet peeve.
>
> (Don't look at me. I voted Rhino.)
>
>
>
>
>
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