delooper wrote:
86TSiGuy wrote:
Just as the title suggests; I'm wondering if I buy a D350 495dps version now to shoot as is, can I bring it back up to full power later easily? Full disclosure I'm waiting on my PAL due to the backlog. I'd really like to do some shooting before the weather turns for the year and do some basic firearms safety withy 19yo. However I was planning on buying the 350 in full power. So if I buy the 395fps now is it simply a vortek kit to get it back up or did Diana do some other modifications, i.e. short piston, vent holes, different internal compression diameter, etc?
A slightly more general question would be, could you do this for pretty much any gun?
Generally the answer to that is no. If the gun requires a PAL at purchase, you can do it. If the gun does not require a PAL at purchase, modifying it to 500+ fps would not be okay, legally speaking.
At least, that's my understanding of the situation. Since the Diana 350 is a PAL-required rifle, you are fine.
To the OP short answer is yes.
Actually as long as you have a PAL. It is fully legal to modify an air rifle over 500 FPS. Many here have been doing it for decades, as you can normally find SUB 500 airguns on clearance and on sale, and mod it for way less than it PAL rated variant. Now you cannot take a PAL rated and detune it to non PAL, as far as I can remember. Believe the RCMP see it once a firearm always a firearm. Same as Why 2240/13xx/2250s are always considered a handgun, even if it been modified with a stock and long barrel.
There are grey areas like Crosman 2260, as it never came into Canada as Sub 500. When many use the maintubes for SUB 500 2240 builds to avoid them being a "handguns" But if they really wanted could attempt to charge you with a unlicensed firearm, till they can prove it isn't. But many of our laws are in the Grey.