r/canadaguns • u/Illustrious-Neck-205 • Apr 03 '26

Application / Regulation advice Why not ?

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I just wonder, why don't they make these guns with rimfire and centerfire calipers ? is there a law against that ?

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u/Iokua_CDN Apr 03 '26

  1. Limited capacity. These 410s for example only do 5 rounds.

  2. Revolver let's gas escape from the cylinder gap. Not bad on a low powered round, but it can get pretty bad with a higher power round.

  3. They do make them. Heritage roughrider is made in 22lr and 22mag. Sulan makes a 45 acp/LC version of this.  There are fancier and much more expensive  versions in 357 and other calibers from Cimarron and Taylor's and Uberti and Alfa Proj. Again though, these are expensive.

  4. So all in all. It's a cost thing. Or a limited market thing. So there isn't much of them.  Come to think of it, something like a Lever action would be easier and more universally sellable around the world, yet there are relatively few companies selling lever actions, and Turkey only got into it recently. So I'm sure Turkey will do more rifled versions as time goes on, if current trends are any indication. They just happen to come a bit slow to Canada.