Ammo OK?
I'm having my firearm shipped to AK and the US licensed gun dealer says there should be no problem taking my ammo across the Canadian border but I want to make sure.
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Trackrig wrote:This is false. Tracer, armor-piercing, and other military-style ammunition (full metal jacket) is prohibited. Under the Geneva Convention military ammunition is full metal jacket. Hence, hollow points are not "military-style."
Don't take hollow point ammo. One person I was talking to shipped his gun and went with just the ammo. He had a couple of boxes and it cost him something around $1 per bullet and a lot of hassle. He said they considered hollow points to be war or military related and therefore forbidden. Buy a box of ammo when you get to Alaska if you can't do with out it.
Bill
From Canadian Criminal Code: PART 5
PROHIBITED AMMUNITION
Former Prohibited Weapons Order, No. 10
1. Any cartridge that is capable of being discharged from a commonly available semi-automatic handgun or revolver and that is manufactured or assembled with a projectile that is designed, manufactured or altered so as to be capable of penetrating body armour, including KTW, THV and 5.7 x 28 mm P-90 cartridges.
2. Any projectile that is designed, manufactured or altered to ignite on impact, where the projectile is designed for use in or in conjunction with a cartridge and does not exceed 15 mm in diameter.
3. Any projectile that is designed, manufactured or altered so as to explode on impact, where the projectile is designed for use in or in conjunction with a cartridge and does not exceed 15 mm in diameter.
4. Any cartridge that is capable of being discharged from a shotgun and that contains projectiles known as “fléchettes” or any similar projectiles.
