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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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