Loop hole kinda...?
 

I've been thinking about starting to play airsoft for a while, but I've always been daunted by both the prices, and the Legal gray zone associated with the sport.

I was recently reviewing the Canadian fire-arms act, and noticed that a gun is only considered a replica if it is made to look like an actual firearm. Then I remembered this gun.
http://www.cobraairsoft.com/product_...oducts_id=3800
Before flaming me on JG building garbage, hear me out. It's not modeled off a real firearm, just off one from an Anime series. So technically, it's not a replica, because it's not replicating anything. Wouldn't that technically make it %100 legal to import into Canada without any special licenses? Or does the fact that it looks like it could be an assault rifle make it considered a replica. Cause from what I've seen, paint ball guns are not subjected to this "kinda looks like a rifle" rule. I own a paint ball gun that looks exactly like an AR-15/C7 and I didn't have any problems getting it. So what's up? where does customs draw the line? The RCMP website says that these guns are dealt with on a case by case basis. Also, antic firearm replicas are excluded from the Replica ban, so if you had an airsoft musket it would be fine aswell I guess. Too bad Tommy guns aren't considered antique firearms.

It has a replica built inside it, CBSA will seize anything that looks like a gun. Hell they sometimes seize mechboxes just cause they have triggers. Paintball guns that look like real guns are like a 90% chance of being seized aswell. (most however you can get eventually by fighting the seizure but that takes so much time/money that it's cheaper to buy in canada)

Also, that specific gun and this exact question have been asked MANY times.

one last point, that gun is ugly as shit.

oh fuck, that gun's been discussed to death both its ugly looks and its admissability into canada

It's generally why clear guns are "okay" -- they don't look a real firearm.

The Thundermaul was okay at one point, but there's actually a an M4 receiver under the sci-fi body and I think that fact eventually got caught by CBSA.

Sci-fi guns would technically be okay, except you're then playing with NERF.


"Exactly" like? Proportions and all? Or rather it's a paintball gun that kinda looks like an AR-15 (if nothing else most real AR15s don't have a huge hopper sticking out the top).


You answered your own question.


It would as long as the gun in question satisfies the requirements to be an antique in the eyes of the law. (even a real black powder muzzleloaded flintlock, for example, doesn't require a license)

Someone (in Europe, IIRC) actually built an airsoft musket. It was quite nice.

That sux
 

They even seize gearboxes? that's ridiculous. CBSA needs to pull the stick out of their asses. If our government had any sense, they'd just make some legal/affordable way of importing these, something like a PAL, or add airsoft gun importing to the PAL. If you're qualified to own a real gun, I think it's reasonable to assume that you're trustworthy enough to have a toy that looks like one.

So if they let paintball guns that Almost look like an AR-15, Why wouldn't they let a gear box through? it's clearly not a gun. Clear plastic bb guns have gearboxes, triggers, ect and don't get through. It seems like they just can't make a decision and through the bureaucracy of the situation the government is too lazy/slow to create definitive regulations on this.