[Jimski]

Originally Posted by Donster

didn't you ask this in another thread? i thought i told you, or someone, that you will have to get a retailer to import it for you cause it doesn't meet the min-barrel length requirements. if customs gets it, and opens it, they WILL seize it

I have seen no one confirming this, are you absolutely 100% positive about that?

also:


http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=90656

Slides:

You will not have a problem importing a slide. A slide of a real firearm, let alone an airsoft gun, is not in itself a prohibited or restricted part and does NOT require any kind of permits to import. This is spelled out in the D-memorandum D19-13-2, which is one of dozens of regulation sources which the CBSA Officers reference regularly.

Even if confused with slide for a real pistol, it is not illegal to import a slide into Canada if properly declared.


Receivers:


The D-Memo D19-13-2 (http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publicati...9-13-2-eng.pdf) defines a firearm as:


"a barrelled weapon from which any shot, bullet, or other projectile can be discharged and that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person, and includes any frame or receiver of such a barrelled weapon and anything that can be adapted for use as a firearm." (Page 5, right hand side).

This is where all the trouble comes from for importing receivers.

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Just a word on the CBSA D-Memoranda. The D-Memos compile information from numerous Acts of Parliament into a single document that puts it all into the "import/export" context.[/b] The D-Memo referenced above, for example, presents info out of the Criminal Code, the Firearms Act, as well as the Export and Import Permits Act, while D-Memos pertaining to import/export of agricultural products may reference acts such as The Health of Plants and Animals Act.

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Back to Airsoft parts and accessories, though! The Customs Tariff 9898.00.00 is also used to help with the determination of "prohibited devices". Feel free to read through it here on page 1757 of the PDF document to find out what's prohibited for import and what's not http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-com...-01-99-eng.pdf.

Only slides that MAY be an issue are slides for automatic guns (as the real auto ones are prohibited)

Only things you are 100% not allowed are receivers(section with the serial number on real one), pistol frames (lower part) and barrels below a certain length (though very few are shorter than this)

Silencers, mags with fake bullets and all those other things people say are illegal to import are in fact legal... you just have to dispute it when cbsa seizes it and eventually get it a few months (or years) down the road.