r/canadaguns • u/BrotherLefthand • 9d ago

News / Politics / Activism What happened to Cross Industries?

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I had been following crossmags for a long time as Cross kept teasing us with .308 coupler mags for competition shooting. They also teased 7.62x39 coupler magazines.

I went into the backrooms to find my old gear and was reminiscing about days before the great banning. And I saw them... my crossmags...

I went to google Cross Industries and it seems that all of their socials are dead. I can't find their website, and everyone is out of stock of their magazines. I'm not surprised. When all of the MSRs are banned, you lose a business built entirely on being a legal supply of more than 5-rounds.

Does anyone know if they got bought out? Who owns their IP? I would love to see the tech go to MDT. I imagine they can do something great with it.

I was so excited for 7.62x39 magazines...

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u/Spyrothedragon9972 9d ago

I always forget about the weird shit Canadians have to deal with in terms of their shooting hobbies.

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u/BrotherLefthand 9d ago

Right? The government decided 30 rounds was too much, so we were limited to 5. But pistols could have 10... and pistol rifles could also have 10 because they were pistols... and the rule applied to the magazine, not the firearm so rifles could also have 10 rounds... make it make sense.

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u/Spyrothedragon9972 9d ago

I have like twelve 30 round pmags and four 20 round 7.62 mags sitting on my desk right now. To be fair those are illegal in some U.S. states too, but it's just plastic with a metal spring lol. Imagine getting arrested and going to jail because of a $20 plastic rifle magazine.

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u/AnvilsHammer 9d ago

The more fun loopholes were magazines that were designed for a particular round, say .50 Beowulf or .458 Socom but designed to fit into an AR15. Well those magazines also happened to be able to fit 15ish rounds of 5.56 even though they were pinned to 5 rounds. You can't modify the magazine, but if your gun could accept that magazine, it was perfectly legal to use.

Iirc the Spectre ballistics Lynx had an option for the lower to accept Black Creek Labs Bison 20rd mags. 4x the "legal" limit for centre fire rifles, but perfectly legal to use.

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u/looloopklopm 9d ago

I'm using 20rd bison mags in my renegade lol

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u/BrotherLefthand 8d ago

You could use a 100rnd drum mag in your renegade if it was proprietary. Renegade is a manual action firearm.

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u/looloopklopm 8d ago

YUP.

You think I'm coming online to confess to crimes through reddit comments?

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u/BrotherLefthand 8d ago

Lol get automodded, chud.

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u/BrotherLefthand 8d ago

I think you could be ignorant of the law because it can be confusing. I don't care what you do with your guns.

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u/looloopklopm 8d ago

Then why the fuck did you respond to me?

You aren't supposed to be eating the bullets.