Thread: Legal length.

Ive heard differing interpretations on this. Ive had 2 rifles under 762(only just) and have just kept suppressors on them. I think it has to do with the intent of use "is not designed or adapted to be held and fired with 1 hand" thats section 50 of arms act but
does still apply.

Originally Posted by MCCPRO

Ive heard differing interpretations on this. Ive had 2 rifles under 762(only just) and have just kept suppressors on them. I think it has to do with the intent of use "is not designed or adapted to be held and fired with 1 hand" thats section 50 of arms act but
does still apply.

It's not really up for interpretation on legal length. The Arms Act states it pretty clearly. If they are under 762mm they are pistols. The key part below is "And includes any firearm"
There is interpretation on how you fix this. From experience suppressors aren't really accepted anymore but this is fairly grey area.

pistol means a firearm (other than a prohibited firearm or restricted weapon) that is designed or adapted to be held and fired with 1 hand, and includes any firearm (other than a prohibited firearm or restricted weapon) that is less than 762 millimetres in length

Originally Posted by Coop

It's not really up for interpretation on legal length. The Arms Act states it pretty clearly. If they are under 762mm they are pistols. The key part below is "And includes any firearm"
There is interpretation on how you fix this. From experience suppressors aren't really accepted anymore but this is fairly grey area.

pistol means a firearm (other than a prohibited firearm or restricted weapon) that is designed or adapted to be held and fired with 1 hand, and includes any firearm (other than a prohibited firearm or restricted weapon) that is less than 762 millimetres in length

I've read it a few times but I'm still not sure I'm reading it right, does this mean that prohibited firearms do not have a minimum length requirement at all? "Other than a prohibited firearm". Or are the defined separately in a different part of the act?

Originally Posted by Coop

It's not really up for interpretation on legal length. The Arms Act states it pretty clearly. If they are under 762mm they are pistols. The key part below is "And includes any firearm"
There is interpretation on how you fix this. From experience suppressors aren't really accepted anymore but this is fairly grey area.

pistol means a firearm (other than a prohibited firearm or restricted weapon) that is designed or adapted to be held and fired with 1 hand, and includes any firearm (other than a prohibited firearm or restricted weapon) that is less than 762 millimetres in length

So my u/o 12 gauge is a long pistol, I hold the spotlight in the other.
Sounds like the police have become a fan of the sexual indentification brigade.
I know the rules, but 762mm is an imperial conversion FFS