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Browning buckmark Rifle

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  • 08-04-2011 2:30pm
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    BoatMad
    Registered Users Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭


    I was recently told that the Browning Buckmark Rifle semi 0.22lr is one of the common "gallery" rifles.

    Question, is this a unresitricted or restricted, it has the magazine behind the trigger and the barrell is 18". Yet I was told it was unrestricted becuase of its 0.22Lr rimfire.

    ???

    which is it.

    Boatmad


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    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    It's restricted, but it's a good example of a stupid edge case. As a pistol, it's unrestricted. Attach the rifle kit and it becomes restricted, not because of calibre or magazine capacity, but because the magazine is behind the trigger and according to the law:
    Restricted Firearms SI (definitions) wrote:
    “bullpup rifles” means rifles with a magazine located behind the trigger;
    Restricted Firearms SI wrote:
    (c) the following long firearms [are not restricted] (not being assault rifles or bullpup rifles):


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    firefly08
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭firefly08


    Read this thread. Big argument. Apparently it is restricted.


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    Bananaman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭Bananaman


    There is also no 'attaching a rifle kit'
    the Pistol and Rifle are sperate products and not interchangeable

    just in case there was any confusion.

    B'Man


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