Prices up in British Columbia for any type of AR platform is more than my govt. pension check!! and,like handguns,its a ''restricted weapon'' means a special federal licence and can only be used at an approved shooting range......SOOOOOO, everybody I know has several russian SKS......as new, they sell for around 250$ canadian.....wait for a sale and they are under 200$ cdn.....thats about 150$ usd including tax.......after the ''mass shooting'' back east last week, word is our ''democratic/ liberal '' govt. will try to BAN all military assault semi autos ..........no matter, I still have a 80 yr.old 10 shot .303 lee enfield......hey, I bet thats a military assault rifle too ...