PART III S. 84 FIREARMS AND OTHER OFFENSIVE WEAPONS Definitions - "Antique firearm" - "Chief provincial firearms officer" - "Commissioner" - "Firearm" - "Firearms acquisition certificate" - "Firearms officer" - "Genuine gun collector" - "Large-capacity cartridge magazine" - "Local registrar of firearms" - "Permit" - "Prohibited weapon" - "Registration certificate" - "Regulations" - "Restricted weapon" - Barrel length - Weapon to be a restricted weapon - Certain weapons deemed not to be firearms - Designated officer or constable. 84. (1) For the purposes of this Part, "antique firearm" means any firearm manufactured before 1898 that was not designed to use rim-fire or centre-fire ammunition and that has not been redesigned to use such ammunition, or, if so designed or redesigned, is capable only of using rim-fire or centre-fire ammunition that is not commonly available in Canada; "chief provincial firearms officer" means a person who has been designated in writing by the Attorney General of a province as the chief provincial firearms officer for that province; "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; "firearm" means any barrelled weapon from which any shot, bullet or other projectile can be discharged and that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person, and includes any frame or receiver of such a barrelled weapon and anything that can be adapted for use as a firearm; "firearms acquisition certificate" means a firearms acquisition certificate issued by a firearms officer under section 106 or 107; "firearms officer" means any person who has been designated in writing as a firearms officer by the Commissioner or the Attorney General of a province or who is a member of a class of persons that has been so designated; "genuine gun collector" means an individual who possesses or seeks to acquire one or more restricted weapons that are related or distinguished by historical, technological or scientific characteristics, has knowledge of those characteristics, has consented to the periodic inspection, conducted in a reasonable manner and in accordance with the regulations, of the premises in which the restricted weapons are to be kept and has complied with such other requirements as are prescribed by regulation respecting knowledge, secure storage and the keeping of records in respect of the restricted weapons; "large-capacity cartridge magazine" means any device or container from which ammunition may be fed into the firing chamber of a firearm; "local registrar of irearms" means any person who has been designated in writing as a local registrar of firearms by the Commissioner or the Attorney General of a province or who is a member of a class of police officers or police constables that has been so designated; "permit" means a permit issued under section 110; "prohibited weapon" means (a) any device or contrivance designed or intended to muffle or stop the sound or report of a firearm, (b) any knife that has a blade that opens automatically by gravity or centrifugal force or by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to the handle of the knife, (c) any firearm, not being a restricted weapon described in paragraph (c) or (c.1) of the definition of that expression in this subsection, that is capable of, or assembled or designed and manufactured with the capability of, firing projectiles in rapid succession during one pressure of the trigger, whether or not it has been altered to fire only one projectile with one such pressure, (d) any firearm adapted from a rifle or shotgun, whether by sawing, cutting or other alteration or modification, that, as so adapted, has a barrel that is less than 457 mm in length or that is less than 660 mm in overall length, (e) a weapon of any kind, not being an antique firearm or a firearm of a kind commonly used in Canada for hunting or sporting purposes, or a part, component or accessory of such a weapon, or any ammunition, that is declared by order of the Governor in Council to be a prohibited weapon, or (f) a large-capacity cartridge magazine prescribed by regulation; "registration certificate" means a restricted weapon registration certificate issued under section 109; "regulations" means regulations made by the Governor in Council pursuant to section 116; "restricted weapon" means (a) any firearm, not being a prohibited weapon, designed, altered or intended to be aimed and fired by the action of one hand, (b) any firearm that (i) is not a prohibited weapon, has a barrel that is less than 470 mm in length and is capable of discharging centre-fire ammunition in a semi-automatic manner, or (ii) is designed or adapted to be fired when reduced to a length of less than 660 mm by folding, telescoping or otherwise, or (c) any firearm that is designed, altered or intended to fire bullets in rapid succession during one pressure of the trigger and that, on January 1 , 1978, was registered as a restricted weapon and formed part of a gun collection in Canada of a genuine gun collector, (c.1) any firearm that is assembled or designed and manufactured with the capability of firing projectiles in rapid succession with one pressure of the trigger, to the extent that (i) the firearm is altered to fire only one projectile with one such pressure, (ii) on October 1, 1992, the firearm was registered as a restricted weapon, or an application for a registration certificate was made to a local registrar of firearms in respect of the firearm, and the firearm formed part of a gun collection in Canada of a genuine gun collector, and (iii) subsections 109(4.1) and (4.2) were complied with in respect of that firearm, or (d) a weapon of any kind, not being a prohibited weapon or a shotgun or rifle of a kind that, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, is reasonable for use in Canada for hunting or sporting purposes, that is declared by order of the Governor in Council to be a restricted weapon. (1.1) For the purposes of paragraph (d) of the definition "prohibited weapon" and of subparagraph (b)(i) of the definition "restricted weapon" in subsection (1), the length of a barrel of a firearm means (a) in the case of a revolver, the distance from the muzzle of the barrel to the breach end immediately in front of the cylinder, and (b) in any other case, the distance from the muzzle of the barrel to and including the chamber, but not including the length of any part or accessory including parts or accessories designed or intended to suppress the muzzle flash or reduce recoil. (1.2) Where the Governor in Council makes an order referred to in paragraph (e) of the definition "prohibited weapon" in subsection (1), the Governor in Council may also, by order, declare that a person who possesses a weapon referred to in that paragraph prior to the coming into force of the order referred to in that paragraph shall only retain the ownership and possession of the weapon if the person obtains a registration certificate in respect of the weapon in accordance with section 109 and, where the Governor in Council makes such an order, the weapon is deemed to be a restricted weapon for that person for the purposes of this Act. (2) Notwithstanding the definition "firearm" in subsection (1), for the purposes of the definitions "prohibited weapon" and "restricted weapon" in that subsection and for the purpose of section 93, subsections 97(1) and (3) and sections 102, 104, 105 and 116, the following weapons shall be deemed not to be firearms: (a) an antique firearm unless (i) but for this subsection, it would be a restricted weapon, and (ii) the person in possession thereof intends to discharge it, (b) any device designed, and intended by the person in possession thereof, for use exclusively for (i) signalling, notifying of distress or firing stud cartridges, explosive-driven rivets or similar industrial ammunition, or (ii) firing blank cartridges; (c) any shooting device designed, and intended by the person in possession thereof, for use exclusively for (i) slaughtering of domestic animals, (ii) tranquilizing animals, or (iii) discharging projectiles with lines attached thereto; and (d) any other barrelled weapon where it is proved that that weapon is not designed or adapted to discharge a shot, bullet or other projectile at a muzzle velocity exceeding 152.4 m per second or to discharge a shot, bullet or other projectile that is designed or adapted to attain a velocity exceeding 152.4 m per second. (3) A police officer or police constable designated in writing by the Commissioner or the Attorney General of a province for the purposes of this subsection or who is a member of a class of police officers or police constables that has been so designated may perform such functions and duties of a local registrar of firearms under subsections 109(1) to (6) and subsections 110(3) and (4) as are specified in the designation. R.S. 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 186; 1991, c.40, s. 2.