r/canadaguns • u/HandWeak5193 • 23d ago

Buy recommendations Nagant M1895 legal?

Is this revolver considered antique thinking about getting back into guns kinda at a loss with pistols I've seen posts of old welby revolvers legal im just wondering the legality of this one its a very neat old russian pistol it is a gas seal chamber making it one of the only supressor compatible revolvers very innovative for its time it would be a nice collectible im into old revolvers.

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u/Global_Theme864 23d ago

Theoretically if you could find one made before 1898 but I've literally never even seen one online dated that early. Fewer that 20,000 were made by Nagant Freres in Belgium as Tula production didn't start until 1899 and the survival rate would have been vanishing small considering the Russo-Japanese War, WW1, Russian Civil War and WW2.