Okay...this is how stupid the feds can be on this.
Oct 24, 2011 the RCMP banned the FX18HB b.b. gun (then sold in Canada) because it was made to look like an AK and used actual parts from the Norinco Type 56.
It was a .177 cal b.b. gun (got that).
But...according to the RCMP a good gunsmith could take one of these guns, swap out the barrel, swap out the b.b. loading system and the spring powerplant and replace them with the parts to make a function AK.
The Feds checked all the retailers that sold the guns (there were only a couple down east), obtained their sales records and went after all the owners (not many in fact).
Someone did a cost analysis. A competent gunsmith would have charged a $1000 to do the conversion.
Yeah...a bad buy is going to pay $1000 to convert a b.b. gun instead of buying a black market AK from the US for what...200 bucks.
IT WAS A B.B GUN FOR GODS SAKE!!!
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