Walther PPQ has the shortest legal factor barrel for a semi-car in Canada. Great trigger. Alternatively, you can get both the Glock 19 and the SW M&P Compact with Canadian replacement kegs. Or even the Glock 26 with a 106mm gun (sounds a bit silly) What`s the point of a restriction in Canada? To have fun with. And the trigger. Oh, the trigger. While I`m not one to worry about a dual-action trigger (since I`m a bigger fan of single-action or DA/SA weapons), the Boberg`s dual-action trigger is about as smooth as you`ll ever find it in double-action. Even the DA trigger of the mighty CZ 75 SP01 Shadow is heavy, grainy and fast, and is probably closer to what you`d expect from a pretty decent revolver. It absorbs a linearly weighted resistance and is soft to butter throughout its course.

And if you want to record this trip and stage the trigger, you can do it with such finesse that you would swear you can feel the trigger approaching the ear. It`s really that good. Here`s an interesting thought: Since the weapon`s inception, its loading paths have steadily receded relative to the shooter. Take handguns, for example. From their emergence in the 13th century until their final disappearance in the 19th century, muzzle-loading pistols required the charge and projectile to be loaded by a rod and pushed backwards before firing. The introduction of revolvers marked the end of the muzzle-loading era and initially required the charge and projectile to be loaded into individual cylinders rather than the barrel; to bring the ammunition a little closer to the firing mechanism. With the development of cartridges, revolvers quickly switched to a loading system that required cartridges to be loaded at the rear of the cylinder, allowing for even smaller gun designs and moving the feed track to load even further back. Then came the revolution of semi-automatic pistols. With the box magazines feeding the cartridges into the pistol handle, the loaded cartridges were in the shooter`s grip and allowed the weapons to shrink accordingly. And for many years, gun enthusiasts have admitted that this method is simply as good as it gets. Boberg Arms wants you to think again.

In 1997, in response to the massacre of 16 children at a Scottish primary school, the United Kingdom effectively banned private possession of firearms. The following year, gun crime increased – and continued to rise for the rest of the decade. In 1997-1998, there were 12,805 firearms offences in England and Wales. In 2001-2002, there were 22,401. “The short-term effects strongly suggest that there is no direct link between the illegal use of handguns and their legal possession,” according to a 2001 report by the Centre for Defence Studies at King`s College London. Fortunately, the long-term rate of gun crime in the UK has finally declined, with handgun crime now about half of what it used to be. A particularly promising sign in recent years is that British criminals are repeatedly arrested with antique firearms, such as the Sussex drug dealer arrested in 2014 with a Victorian-era revolver. These are not the actions of criminals with easy access to weapons. Meanwhile, the classic example is a gun ban gone wrong in Venezuela. The country banned all private gun ownership in 2012, but the number of homicides continued to rise, especially after the country`s economy began to completely collapse from 2015.

Tackling illegal guns is always a bit tricky when the largest gun market in history is next door. Speaking of Britain, it is often cited alongside Australia as a gun control success story. Both countries are also islands with notoriously strict border controls. Canada, for its part, shares a very long and porous border with the most weapon-saturated country in the history of human civilization. “All that`s going to happen is a displacement effect where we`re going to see more guns crossing the border,” said Leuprecht, who has studied Canada-U.S. gun smuggling pipelines. He said a standard method of cross-border smuggling is to fill a box with weapons, equip it with a GPS tracker and attach it to the floor of a car with a Canadian license plate parked near the U.S. border. Then, as the unsuspecting Canadian returns home, the criminals follow the GPS and snatch the box from his driveway. “It`s so easy to bring weapons into this country,” Leuprecht said. Mexico is particularly familiar with the problem of American weapons. As is known, the only gun store in the country is located on a heavily guarded military base and can only be entered by citizens who have passed a detailed background check.

Nevertheless, criminal gangs with up to 250,000 U.S. guns crossing the Mexican border each year have no problem arming themselves for the years-long bloody war on drugs. TheGunBlog.ca — Glock GmbH, maker of the world`s best-selling handgun, has developed its new Model 48 pistol as the first standard firearm specifically designed for legalization in Canada, one of the company`s largest recurring markets outside the United States. The Boberg Arms XR9L, Canada`s smallest restricted handgun, may be the next evolution of this development. While you will always put a magazine in the handle, as you would with any other semi-automatic pistol, all the similarities between the Boberg and a conventional handgun end there; Because the magazine is actually under the House and not behind. For this feed path to work, the Boberg pulls the cartridges backwards from the back of the magazine, tilts them upwards, and then pushes them forward into the chamber, making the whole thing incredibly small. With a 4.2-inch full-size barrel, the slider on our review unit was just over 5.8 inches long! Some have called this action a kind of bullpup handgun, and while this may be a good way to describe how the weapon action was moved farther than usual, that`s not entirely true. In a conventional bullpup firearm, the handle and trigger were moved only in front of the magazine, while retaining the traditional cartridge feed route forward into the chamber. In the case of the Boberg, the plot is much more complicated and even requires the cartridges to be rounded nose down in the magazine.