From: booth@mdd.comm.mot.com (Greg Booth)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: magazine limits in Canada
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:29:14 GMT
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC


Proposed regulations pursuant to Bill C-17, "Firearms Control"
as passed by the House of Commons of Canada November 7, 1991

	Regulations Prescribing Large-Capacity Cartridge Magazines
		and the Conditions for the Possession Thereof.

		Short Title

1. These Regulations may be cited as the *Cartridge Magazine Control
Regulations*.

		Interpretations

2. In these Regulations,

"Act" means the Criminal Code;

"fully automatic", ...

"handgun",...

"semi-automatic", ...

		Prohibited Weapons

3. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), for the purposes of
paragraph (f) of the definition "prohibited weapon" in subsectoin
84(1) of the Act, the following large-capacity cartridge magazines
are hereby prescribed:

	(a) any magazine that is designed or manufactured for use
in a semi-automatic handgun where the magazines is capable of containing
more than 10 cartridges of the type for which the magazine was 
originally designed;

	(b) any magazine that is designed or manufactured for use in
a semi-automatic firearm, other than a semi-automatic handgun, or
in a fully automatic firearm, where the magazines is capable of
containing more than five cartridges of the type for which the
magazines was originally designed'

	(c) any magazine that is designed or manufactured for use
in a semi-automatic handgun that is commonly available in Canada
and for use in any other semi-automatic firearm or a fully 
automatic firearm, where the magazine is capable of containing 
more than ten cartridges of the type for which  the magazine was
originally designed; and

	(d) any magazine that is designed or manufactured for use
in a semi-automatic handgun that is not commonly available in Canada
and for use in any other semi-automatic firearms or a fully 
automatic firearm, where the magazine is capable of containing
more than five cartridges of the type for which the magazine
was originally designed.

   (2) Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply in respect of any magazine
designed or manufactured for use in 

	(a) a firearm that is chambered for or designed to use
rimfire cartridges; or

	(b) a firearm that is a rifle of the type commonly described
as the "Lee Enfield" rifle, where the magazine is not capable of
containing more than ten cartridges of the type for which the
magazine was originally designed.


    (3) any magazine referred to in subsection (1) that has been
altered or re-manufactured so that it is not capable of containing
more than five or ten cartridges, as the case may be, of the type
for which the magazine was originally designed is not a 
prohibited weapon as prescribed by subsection (1)  where the
modification cannot be easily further altered so that it is capable
of containing more than five or ten cartridges, as the case may be.

		Condition

4. Any person who is authorized pursuant to subsection 90 (3.2)
of the Act to possess a large-capacity cartridge magazines
described in subsection 3(1) shall store the magazine in
accordance with the storage requirements set out in the Storage,
Display, Handling and Transportation of Certain Firearms Regulations
in respect of the firearm in which the magazine is to be used.



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