"Munitions List"
Category 2-1

Canada has exported products in Category 2-1 to nine countries in the Middle East & North Africa
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Summary
2-1: Small arms and automatic weapons
Firearms and automatic weapons with a calibre of 12.7 mm (0.5 inches), including rifles, carbines, revolvers, pistols, machine pistols and machine guns. Includes parts such as silencers, special gun-mountings, clips and weapons-targeting sights. Includes smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of less than 20 mm.

The above summary -- by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) for its web report "Canadian Military Exports to the Middle East and North Africa" -- was derived from a detailed description of this category of munitions published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) in a document called A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls (June 2006).  This DFAIT document describes seven different groups of products on the "Export Control List" whose export is "controlled" by the Government of Canada.  One of these seven groups, known as "Group 2" or the "Munitions List," is comprised of 22 categories of military products.  These are the categories of products whose export is documented in a series of DFAIT documents published since 1990, called Export of Military Goods from Canada.

The relevant section from A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls detailing this category on the "Munitions List" is provided below:

2-1
Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of less than 20 mm, other arms and automatic weapons with a calibre of 12.7 mm (calibre 0.50 inches) or less and accessories, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

(All destinations)

a. Rifles, carbines, revolvers, pistols, shotguns, machine pistols, machine guns and firearms as defined by the Criminal Code;

b. Smooth-bore weapons;

c. Weapons using caseless ammunition;

d. Silencers, special gun-mountings, clips, weapons sights and flash suppressors for arms controlled by sub-items 2-1.a., 2-1.b., or 2-1.c.

Note:

2-1. does not control the following:

1. Firearms specially designed for dummy ammunition and which are incapable of firing, or being modified to fire, any controlled ammunition;

2. Antique firearms as defined by the Criminal Code;

3. Reproductions of flintlock, wheelock and matchlock muskets, rifles and carbines.

4. Optical weapon sights without electronic image processing, with a magnification of 4 times or less, provided they are not specially designed or modified for military use.

Compiled by COAT

Coalition to
Oppose the
Arms
Trade

Canadian Military Exports
to the Middle East
and North Africa