r/canadaguns • u/Whoopity_Longjohn • Apr 16 '17

Why are Valment AK's actually legal?

All AK variants are banned but I'm just curious about what difference makes the Valmet variant legal. Specific components? Caliber? Where it was made?

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u/Krazee9 on Apr 16 '17

It is exempt from the ban by name. Specifically, the Valmet M78, Valmet Hunter, and Valmet Hunter Auto are exempt by name. The other Valmets, like the M76, are still banned.

Supposedly, this is because in the '80s sometime the government had given a bunch of Valmets to native groups in Northern Quebec and didn't then want to confiscate them from those groups, so they decided to make a special exception for the Valmet.

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u/ezSpankOven Apr 16 '17

Heard this story before too. Also heard someone from Valmet was in bed with a liberal senator or mp at the time and this was their in. For all we know, a prominent liberal could have had one or two in their collection at the time and didn't want to give it up.

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u/Krazee9 on Apr 16 '17

Valmet's gun division was sold to Sako in 1986 and IIRC discontinued and Valmet went bankrupt in 1989. There's literally no chance of "someone from Valmet" being in bed with the Liberals when the company didn't exist in 1995.

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u/ezSpankOven Apr 16 '17

Good point. If valmets were ever actually issued to the natives this still could have been a reason why they were chosen. I feel it's more likely that an influential liberal had a couple.

On a side note, I used to have a .308 hunter. It was cool but not a good shooter. The non adjustable iron sight was next to useless and the scope rail was attached to the top cover.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '17

Stop ruining the image in my head of Kim Campbell getting porked by a gun salesman in the Parliament Library!

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u/sheepsix al Apr 17 '17

I hate being that guy but Kim Campbell was PC not LIB.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '17

I know, I was thinking of it through the "added stupid gun legislation" lens rather than the Liberal side.

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u/TheCapedMoosesader Apr 17 '17

Stop ruining it he said!

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u/89gsxr-rr Apr 19 '17

corrupt Liberal,come on,,say it ain't so,i thought tards where all so honest,