Firearms Legal definitions: automatic firearm

means a firearm that is capable of, or assembled or designed and manufactured with the capability of, discharging projectiles in rapid succession during one pressure of the trigger;

C.T.https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-84.html

automatic firearm means a firearm that is capable of, or assembled or designed and manufactured with the capability of, discharging projectiles in rapid succession during one pressure of the trigger; (arme automatique)

C.T.https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/firearms/classes-firearms

Prohibited

What’s included in this class

• Handguns with barrels equal to or less than 105 mm in length
• Handguns designed or adapted to discharge a 25 or 32 calibre cartridge
  • This does not include handguns for use in international sporting competitions governed by the rules of the International Shooting Union and where the handgun is prescribed to be restricted
• Firearms adapted from a rifle or shotgun, whether by sawing, cutting or any other alteration, and that, as so adapted are:
  • less than 660 mm in length
  • 660 mm or greater in length and has a barrel less than 457 mm in length
• Automatic firearms, whether or not altered to discharge only one projectile with one pressure of the trigger
• Firearms prescribed to be prohibited firearms in the Regulations

As a general rule, a PAL will indicate what categories of prohibited firearms the licence holder is licensed to acquire by showing the section of the Firearms Act that grandfathers them, as follows:

• s.12(2): full automatics
• s.12(3): converted automatics
• s.12(4): firearms prohibited by former prohibition order No. 12
• s.12(5): firearms prohibited by former prohibition order No. 13
• s.12(6.1): handguns with a barrel length of 105 mm or less or that discharge .25 or .32 calibre ammunition.
• s.12(7): inherited handguns made prior to 1946 that fall under the s. 12(6.1) category