Weapons Regulation 2016
sch.4-sec.16Pistol
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sch.4-sec.16 Pistol
A pistol may be modified to make it permanently incapable of being discharged by doing all of the following— making a cut, that is the same size as the pistol’s calibre, for the full length of the chamber; removing at least 50% of the thickness of the barrel lug where it makes contact with the locking surface, or takedown pin, in the frame; removing at least 1/2 of the breech face for a distance of at least 20mm; removing at least 1/2 of 1 side of the slide rail; removing at least 2/3 of the opposite corner of the frame rail; machining away at least 1/2 of the locking shoulders of the barrel, slide and frame; sectioning halfway through the sears; removing at least 3mm of the hammer face; removing at least 5mm from the nose of the firing pin.
- (a) making a cut, that is the same size as the pistol’s calibre, for the full length of the chamber;
- (b) removing at least 50% of the thickness of the barrel lug where it makes contact with the locking surface, or takedown pin, in the frame;
- (c) removing at least 1/2 of the breech face for a distance of at least 20mm;
- (d) removing at least 1/2 of 1 side of the slide rail;
- (e) removing at least 2/3 of the opposite corner of the frame rail;
- (f) machining away at least 1/2 of the locking shoulders of the barrel, slide and frame;
- (g) sectioning halfway through the sears;
- (h) removing at least 3mm of the hammer face;
- (i) removing at least 5mm from the nose of the firing pin.