No more Airsoft in Canada

[rob love]

It would seem that they have removed the 366 fps portion of the requirement. It was previously set for that because the lab determined that at that speed, the pellet could cause serious bodily harm, therefore rendering it a firearm. The serious bodily harm was because at that speed, the pellet would penetrate the eye of a pig, thus proving that parents old analogy of "you'll shoot your eye out" was indeed correct.

The 366 threshold made the guns allowable. They met the definition of a firearm rather than a replica, however they did not require all the hoopla of safe storage, safe transport, licensing, etc.

So what does that mean for the Canadian collector? All those Thompson SMG airsofts, or sterling SMG airsofts, or MAG58 airsofts, that you purchased to leave in the military vehicles for displays, are now rendered useless and possibly illegal. But you can still have the real deal in deactivated form, at least for now.....