r/canadaguns • u/IntroductionAny3929 • Mar 31 '26

Milsurps / Prohib Norinco QBZ-95/97 Appreciation Post

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Howdy folks!

The Texan is back with yet another gun appreciation post.

Today, we got the Type 97, which for a while was actually popular in Canada, and yes in this one, I did include THE Canadian Flat Top version that was available. I don’t know if you can get them anymore, but these things are actually pretty cool in my opinion.

I know some people will say:

“It’s Chineseum and it sucks!”

I know, still over here in the US I wish we could buy them, but unfortunately we cannot due to how Norinco was banned from importing rifles into the United States, and now we can only get Norinco Shotguns in here. In particular the Hawk Industries Hawk 97/982, which is better known as the H&R 1871 Pardner Pump and Blue Line Solutions BL-18

Anyways if y’all have experience with the Type 97, let me know about it!

Enjoy!

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u/GreenMan165 Apr 01 '26

I must admit, though I did think the Type 97 was neat, one reason I never would have ended up buying one was I picked one up in a shop and it just felt a little too small ergonomically for it to ever be comfortable for me.

Was cool that we had them though, kind of unfortunate that as with some other Chinese firearms they come and go with import batches with years in between sometimes.