Buying primers in Canada

[Sniperwannabee]

Anybody know if you can buy primers in Canada and bring them back?

 

[crossbow5]

It looks like the Canadian border is still closed due to COVID anyway.

 

[thorborg]

Anybody know if you can buy primers in Canada and bring them back?

I think they are metric

 

[Sniperwannabee]

It looks like the Canadian border is still closed due to COVID anyway.

Ahh didn’t even think about that, I got all excted when I found primers in stock until I realized it was in canada hah

 

[Eveskcige28]

It looks like the Canadian border is still closed due to COVID anyway.

What if you have special access do to work? Are there any legal implications preventing somebody from buying some for personal use?

 

[awshoot]

I am also interested in the answer to this question.

 

[1911coltguy]

I believe ATF Form 6 needs to be filed and approved before you can purchase and import ammunition, firearms and reloading supplies.

 

[Sniperwannabee]

Form 6 Part 1 - Application and Permit for Importation of Firearms, Ammunition and Implements of War (ATF Form 5330.3A) | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

www.atf.gov

category i—firearms
(a) Nonautomatic and semiautomatic firearms, to caliber .50 inclusive, combat shotguns, and shotguns with barrels less than 18 inches in length, and all components and parts for such firearms.

(b) Automatic firearms and all components and parts for such firearms to caliber .50 inclusive.

(c) Insurgency-counterinsurgency type firearms of other weapons having a special military application (e.g. close assault weapons systems) regardless of caliber and all components and parts for such firearms.

(d) Firearms silencers and suppressors, including flash suppressors.

(e) [Reserved]

Note: Rifles, carbines, revolvers, and pistols, to caliber .50 inclusive, combat shotguns, and shotguns with barrels less than 18 inches in length are included under Category I(a). Machineguns, submachineguns, machine pistols and fully automatic rifles to caliber .50 inclusive are included under Category I(b).
category ii—artillery projectors
(a) Guns over caliber .50, howitzers, mortars, and recoiless rifles.

(b) Military flamethrowers and projectors.

(c) Components, parts, accessories, and attachments for the articles in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this category, including but not limited to mounts and carriages for these articles.

category iii—ammunition
(a) Ammunition for the arms in Categories I and II of this section.

(b) Components, parts, accessories, and attachments for articles in paragraph (a) of this category, including but not limited to cartridge cases, powder bags, bullets, jackets, cores, shells (excluding shotgun shells), projectiles, boosters, fuzes and components therefor, primers, and other detonating devices for such ammunition.

(c)-(d) [Reserved]

Note: Cartridge and shell casings are included under Category III unless, prior to their importation, they have been rendered useless beyond the possibility of restoration for use as a cartridge or shell casing by means of heating, flame treatment, mangling, crushing, cutting, or popping.

 

[Sniperwannabee]

nevermind primers are listed

 

[awshoot]

I believe ATF Form 6 needs to be filed and approved before you can purchase and import ammunition, firearms and reloading supplies.

Strange that in Canada you can import personal amounts (up to 5k) without a license: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural...importing-exporting-transporting-transit/9907

Here in the home of the free, the ATF has to be involved.

Lame.

 

[Sniperwannabee]

i might fill out the form and go through the process to see what happens


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Voice: (503) 331-7820 Fax: (503) 331-7821

 

[Capn Jack]

I didn't see any, "And, or components".

 

[Sniperwannabee]

(b) Components, parts, accessories, and attachments for articles in paragraph (a) of this category, including but not limited to cartridge cases, powder bags, bullets, jackets, cores, shells (excluding shotgun shells), projectiles, boosters, fuzes and components therefor, primers, and other detonating devices for such ammunition.

 

[awshoot]

i might fill out the form and go through the process to see what happens
...

Interesting -- I looked at the instructions for the form -- importation for personal use is something the ATF intends to cover with this form (assuming ammo and components are used anonymously):

An unlicensed person may obtain a permit to import sporting type
ammunition (excluding tracer or incendiary) and firearm parts (other than
frames, receivers, or actions) without engaging the services of a Federal
firearms licensee, provided that the importation is for his personal use and not
for resale.

 

[Sniperwannabee]

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https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural...importing-exporting-transporting-transit/9907

Here in the home of the free, the ATF has to be involved.

trange that in Canada you can import personal amounts (up to 5k) without a license:

Lame.

yep

 

[Sniperwannabee]

so it sounds like we get approved, drive over buy primers, show approved form while crossing back over the border

sounds easy enough ahhaha

 

[awshoot]

The next question, assuming the ATF granted a personal use import license, is: Will a Canadian store sell a US person primers?

 

[kenboy]

Now that most drugs are legalized, time for the smugglers to start getting us some primers....

 

[awshoot]

This might be helpful in answering the question of whether an American can buy primers in Canada:

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[CV-66]

I think they are metric

They might just as well be that or made of unobtanium.