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Originally Posted by ancorp
I still think airsoft is in a gray area. It's between replicas and realistic looking airguns.
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NO GRAY ZONE!!
The importation of goods of tariff item No. 9897.00.00, 9898.00.00 or 9899.00.00 is prohibited.
L’importation des marchandises des nos tarifaires 9897.00.00, 9898.00.00 ou 9899.00.00 est interdite.
5. Tariff item No. 9898.00.00 reads as follows:
Firearms, prohibited weapons, restricted weapons, prohibited devices, prohibited ammunition and components or parts designed exclusively for use in the manufacture of or assembly into automatic firearms, in this tariff item referred to as prohibited goods . . . .
For the purposes of this tariff item,
. . .
(b) “automatic firearm”, “licence”, “prohibited ammunition”, “prohibited device”, “prohibited firearm”, prohibited weapon, restricted firearm and “restricted weapon” have the same meanings as in subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code . . . .
6. Subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code5 provides that a “prohibited device” includes, among other things, a replica firearm, which is defined as follows:
“replica firearm” means any device that is designed or intended to exactly resemble, or to resemble with near precision, a firearm, and that itself is not a firearm, but does not include any such device that is designed or intended to exactly resemble, or to resemble with near precision, an antique firearm;
« réplique » Tout objet, qui n’est pas une arme * feu, conçu de façon * en avoir l’apparence exacte — ou * la reproduire le plus fidèlement possible — ou auquel on a voulu donner cette apparence. La présente définition exclut tout objet conçu de façon * avoir l’apparence exacte d’une arme * feu historique — ou * la reproduire le plus fidèlement possible — ou auquel on a voulu donner cette apparence.
7. Section 2 of the Criminal Code defines “firearm” as follows:
“firearm” means 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;
« arme * feu » Toute arme susceptible, grâce * un canon qui permet de tirer du plomb, des balles ou tout autre projectile, d’infliger des lésions corporelles graves ou la mort * une personne, y compris une carcasse ou une boîte de culasse d’une telle arme ainsi que toute chose pouvant être modifiée pour être utilisée comme telle.
8. Subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code defines “antique firearm” as follows:
“antique firearm” means
(a) any firearm manufactured before 1898 that was not designed to discharge rim-fire or centre-fire ammunition and that has not been redesigned to discharge such ammunition, or
(b) any firearm that is prescribed to be an antique firearm.
« arme * feu historique » Toute arme * feu fabriquée avant 1898 qui n’a pas été conçue ni modifiée pour l’utilisation de munitions * percussion annulaire ou centrale ou toute arme * feu désignée comme telle par règlement.
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