Quote Originally Posted by Marshall View Post
Have you seen anything in writing that supports your thoughts?
No I don't, and that's sort of part of the issue. I don't mean to discourage you and your business endeavors but it's one of those things that's a real grey area. Nobody really knows what a "LAR-15" mag is, is it any .223/556 mag stamped "for use in pistols", is there a special modification (because if I take a set of calipers to a legit LAR-15 mag and any other GI mag it's the same), is it because they left the factory with those markings on them and that in itself means it was designed for a pistol, nobody really knows for sure.


The only real for sure thing is that the originals that were approved and the only ones that have any formal documentation issued by the RCMP are the ASC and C-Products manufactured "LAR-15" mags that come in a standard GI style 10rd body, the ones the Questar business originally had a hand in importing/getting approved. Everybody else has basically been piggy backing off that since.


The idea of 10/30's has come up a lot in the community over many years, every time I've seen it the idea gets shot down with a bunch of internet know it alls claiming it wouldn't be allowed because then it would just be considered a "modified" magazine and not a purpose built "pistol magazine". I know, makes no sense but neither do our laws.

This was also before the RCMP came about with their "dual use" ruling, the dual use thing is actually a new "standard" so to speak they have completely invented and are now using. You can't find it anywhere in the official Firearms Act yet they've used the term in a few official publications. One that comes to mind was when a company called Northern Republic Magazine was trying to import E-Lander made 5/30 .50 cal Beowulf magazines. Apparently they were denied because the magazines were "dual use" in that they were simply adapted from an original 30rd .223/556 magazine and not built from the ground up as a .50 Beowulf magazine. I mean if you think about it, even LAR-15 mags in .223 are adopted in design from normal 30rd mags, so that's hypocritical to their previous rulings in a way. I also remember them saying that the magazines in current configuration could take multiple calibers thus they were dual use, this was about a year or so after the cat was out of the hat on the .50 cal mags and word got to the RCMP that guys were buying them to legally stuff 15 .223 rds in. That is also contrary to one of their previous publications they recently took down claiming that whatever caliber anybody stuffs into any magazine that's different from what that magazine was intended to take is irrelevant to it's legal capacity restriction.


I feel like if 10/30's were allowed somebody would have done it by now, I know that doesn't help but that's also been one of my indications as to why there was somehow an issue with them.


Historically 10/30's have never really been commonly available, a handful of businesses like really sketchy looking businesses with text only websites have offered them. Never really heard back and chances are the guys that bought them, if they weren't scammed never showed them in public.