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Originally Posted by West O'5
This latest interpretation also directly contradicts RCMP's very own Bulletin 72 which states that the legality of a magazine is determined by the firearm for which it was ORIGINALLY DESIGNED.....the very same "loophole" that allows the use of 10rd pistol mags and 14rd Beowulf.50 mags in semiauto rifles and 10rd .40S&W mags that also happen to fit and feed 13rds of 9mm.
These 25rd Ruger mags were ORIGINALLY DESIGNED and legally bought and sold to CDNS for decades before the obscure Charger pistol was even thought of.
And NO...it is ABSOLUTELY NOT " an interpretation of an existing law where magazines designed for or which can be used in a semi automatic handgun are restricted to 10 rounds"
It says absolutely nothing about "or which can be used in" a semiauto handgun,unless the magazine was explicitly marketed for dual use in both rifles and handguns as is the case with BX-25 mags specifically,as they are in fact designed and marketed for use in both 10-22 rifles and Charger pistol.
Still,it's all just BS semantics and wording,however....Hot Lips mags and GSG drum mags predate the Charger pistol by many years and decades,therefore it is irrelevant if they also happen to fit and function in some new stupid club of a pistol that nobody wants to buy anyway....there's something like 400 butt ugly cumbersome Charger "pistols" (really just an ugly pistol gripped SBRs)registered in Canada vs. what....a cpl hundred thousand 10/22 rifles at least and over a million 10/22 mags sold for same in Canada??
If you are going to pretend to quote regs,at least quote them accurately and don't insert your own words,lest one might suspect you are an RCMP troll promoting your agenda with blatantly false information.
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Maybe you should try quoting it correctly.....
PART 4
Prohibited Devices
Former Prohibited Weapons Order, No. 9
1 Any electrical or mechanical device that is designed or adapted to operate the trigger mechanism of a semi-automatic firearm for the purpose of causing the firearm to discharge cartridges in rapid succession.
2 Any rifle, shotgun or carbine stock of the type known as the “bull-pup” design, being a stock that, when combined with a firearm, reduces the overall length of the firearm such that a substantial part of the reloading action or the magazine-well is located behind the trigger of the firearm when it is held in the normal firing position.
Former Cartridge Magazine Control Regulations
3 (1) Any cartridge magazine
(a) that is capable of containing more than five cartridges of the type for which the magazine was originally designed and that is designed or manufactured for use in
(i) a semi-automatic handgun that is not commonly available in Canada,
(ii) a semi-automatic firearm other than a semi-automatic handgun,
(iii) an automatic firearm whether or not it has been altered to discharge only one projectile with one pressure of the trigger,
(iv) the firearms of the designs commonly known as the Ingram M10 and M11 pistols, and any variants or modified versions of them, including the Cobray M10 and M11 pistols, the RPB M10, M11 and SM11 pistols and the SWD M10, M11, SM10 and SM11 pistols,
(v) the firearm of the design commonly known as the Partisan Avenger Auto Pistol, and any variant or modified version of it, or
(vi) the firearm of the design commonly known as the UZI pistol, and any variant or modified version of it, including the Micro-UZI pistol; or
(b) that is capable of containing more than 10 cartridges of the type for which the magazine was originally designed and that is designed or manufactured for use in a semi-automatic handgun that is commonly available in Canada.
As you see the "originally designed" refers to the cartridge type, which in this case is 22 LR. The next part requires that the magazine be designed or manufactured for use in a semi automatic handgun.
Butler Creek 25 round magazine.
1. Originally designed for 22 LR?
Yes
and
2. Designed
OR manufactured for use in a semi automatic handgun?
Yes
So it doesn't matter that it wasn't originally designed for the Ruger 10/22 rifle as that does not need to be met to satisfy the definition.