B&T APC9 at home

[u/TheGoldShipper]

Really wanted a APC9 or GHM9 but alas, prohib.

So I turned my 1970s 10/22 into the closest thing. 26inch OAL without comp.

Ruger 10/22 carbine receiver
SB22 Fixed Kit chassis
Ballistic Advantage 8” barrel
Tac Sol X Ring compensator
SBI super lite stock
TANDEMKROSS bolt release and skeletonized mag release
Butler Creek 25/22 mag pinned at 10 of course
Holosun ARO
Magpul VFG

[u/Sad-Stop-2401]

How is this not prohibited?

https://rcmp.ca/en/firearms/classes-firearms/classes-firearms-canada#s5

Firearms adapted from a rifle or shotgun, whether by sawing, cutting or any other alteration, and that, as so adapted are:

• less than 660 mm in length
  

- 660 mm or greater in length and has a barrel less than 457 mm in length

You changed barrel length to under 457 mm?

Butler Creek 25/22 mag pinned at 10 of course

Because same mag is designed for a handgun too? Otherwise it should be unlimited right?

PS : Intent of this comment is not to blame any person but to understand legal compliance here. If someone knows more on this topic, most humbly, I will like to be corrected. I am not a lawyer nor a firearm verifier. This is not a legal advice.

[u/goshathegreat → u/Sad-Stop-2401]

Because it was not adapted or altered by cutting or sawing. Since the 8” barrel was made as an 8” barrel, it wasn’t a 16” cut down to 8”, this makes it legal.

[u/Sad-Stop-2401 → u/goshathegreat]

Changing the barrel to a shorter one is adaptation, right? Law says adapted from a rifle or shotgun?

Take a look FRT : https://www.armalytics.ca/firearm/122075-ruger-10-22-rifle

215 mm barrel is marked as prohibited when done in Non commercial customization.

PS : I am an enthusiast but not professional or authority figure in this.

[u/TheGoldShipper → u/Sad-Stop-2401]

Take a look at this NFA article: https://nfa.ca/barrel-and-firearms-lengths/

“NOTE:  The firearm is NOT forced into the “prohibited firearm” class if it left the factory with the barrel at below-18″/457mm barrel length.  I have, for example, a .22 rimfire semi-auto 30-shot rifle with a 9-3/4″ barrel, a .410 single-shot shotgun with an 11-3/4″ barrel, two 12-gauge pump-action shotguns with 14″ barrels, a .22 rimfire pump-action rifle with a 17-7/8″ custom barrel and a .223 calibre rifle with a 14″ barrel — AND ALL OF THEM ARE NON-RESTRICTED.  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY EITHER LEFT THE FACTORY WITH THOSE BARRELS, OR WERE FITTED WITH FACTORY- OR CUSTOM-MADE BARRELS IN THOSE LENGTHS AT SOME LATER DATE, and were NEVER fitted with a longer barrel.  One left the factory with NO barrel, and so a 14″ barrel could be legally fitted.”

[u/TheGoldShipper → u/TheGoldShipper]

If the 8” barrel was prohib I wouldn’t have been able to buy it from the store in the first place

[u/Sad-Stop-2401 → u/TheGoldShipper]

Barrels are not prohibited because classification applies to firearm and not barrel alone.

If say you put a shorter barrel (say 8 inch one) on a rifle that was having longer than 457mm barrel, it *may* be an issue.

But if you rifle was having 8 inch barrel to begin with, you are not adapting or modifying your firearm. You are replacing one barrel with functionally identical barrel of same length.

For example Tactical import can provide replacement barrels of 5 inch for its TR 410 Micro because they have a 5 inch barrel to begin with.

PS : I am Not a lawyer or firearm verifier. Just a firearm enthusiast.