Important: If you supply products for sale on Amazon, you must comply with all
federal, provincial, and local laws and Amazon policies applicable to those products and
product listings.
Examples of permitted listings
Note: While Amazon permits these products,
certain jurisdictions may restrict the export, import or sale of these products. You must
comply with all applicable laws when selling weapons or any other product on Amazon.
Certain gun-like items and their ammunition,
such as:
Toy guns
Air guns and Airsoft guns that do not
resemble firearms and have a muzzle velocity below 152.4 metres per second and a
muzzle energy measurement below 5.7 Joules
Pellet guns that do not resemble firearms
and have a muzzle velocity below 152.4 metres per second and a muzzle energy
measurement below 5.7 Joules
BB guns that do not resemble firearms and
have a muzzle velocity below 152.4 metres per second and a muzzle energy measurement
below 5.7 Joules
Paintball guns that do not resemble
firearms and have a muzzle velocity below 152.4 metres per second and a muzzle energy
measurement below 5.7 Joules
Spearguns for deep sea fishing
Certain gun parts and accessories, as long as
they do not form part of the receiver or firing mechanism, such as:
Barrels greater than 105mm in length
Camouflaging gun containers
Chokes
Butt plates
Holsters
Laser sights (illegal to use for
hunting)
Magazine loaders
Pistol grips
Reloading kits and equipment
Scopes
Stocks (except as specified below)
Trigger guards
Certain knives and swords, such as:
Non-folding hunting knives
Kitchen knives
Replica swords
Machetes
Throwing spears and knives (except as
specified below)
Certain other items, such as:
Arrows
Crossbows that are longer than 500mm and
require the use of two hands to aim and shoot
Handcuffs
Hunting and target bows
Night vision accessories
Sandclubs, sandbags, or slungshots (also
known as saps or blackjacks)
Slingshots
Tactical pen, koga, slaphat (also known as
a yawara )
Kubotan (also known as kubaton or kobutan)
(except as specified below)
Nunchaku with sticks made
completely of foam, sponge, rubber, or another bendable substance
Torches, torch kits, and lighters for use in cooking or outdoor
maintenance
Examples of prohibited listings
Guns, such as:
Replica "look-alike" guns
Blowguns
Automatic guns
Black powder guns
Muzzleloaders
Rifles, shotguns, pistols
Sport and hunting guns
Zip guns
Air guns and Airsoft guns that resemble
firearms or have a muzzle velocity above 152.4 metres per second or a muzzle energy
measurement above 5.7 Joules
Pellet guns that resemble firearms or have
a muzzle velocity above 152.4 metres per second or a muzzle energy measurement above
5.7 Joules
BB guns that resemble firearms or have a
muzzle velocity above 152.4 metres per second or a muzzle energy measurement above 5.7
Joules
Ammunition, such as:
Black powder
Blanks
Bullet tips
Gun powder
Ammunition components such as casings and
primers
Gun parts and accessories, other than the above
permitted parts and accessories, such as:
Converters that can give a gun automatic
capability
Firing pins
Frames/Receivers such as components
Kits that can be used to create gun
magazines
Magazines
Multi-burst trigger activators
Parts or accessories related to assault
weapons
Silencers (also known as suppressors)
Trigger assemblies
Barrels equal to or less than 105mm in
length
Bull-pup stocks
Firearm production machinery
Knives, other than the above permitted knives,
such as:
Automatic knives
Bladed finger rings
Push daggers (other than aboriginal Ulu
knife as may be permitted under applicable law)
Spring-assisted knives
Folding knives (except for multitools and certain bladed tools designed
for art or gardening)
Neck knives
Key knives
Knives disguised to look like harmless items,
such as:
Air gauge knives
Belt buckle knives
Lipstick case knives
Writing pen knives
Shobi-zue
Switchblade knives, such as:
Butterfly knives
Gravity-assisted knives and knives
that open by centrifugal force
Spring-loaded knives
Swords, such as cane-swords and
swordsticks
Starter guns, starter pistols, and blank guns
Explosives, such as:
Any fireworks other than
low-hazard consumer fireworks (e.g. fountains, wheels, roman candles,
sparklers, Christmas crackers, volcanoes, mines, snakes and toy pistol
caps) and other fireworks classified as F.1 (Canadian class 7.2.1) by
Natural Resources Canada
Flares, flare launchers, most
flare guns, flare gun receivers
All restricted components prescribed in the Canadian Explosives
Regulations, 2013, as amended from time to time (e.g. nitromethane,
potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate etc.)
Flamethrowers and flame guns
Grenades, such as:
Grenade launchers
Military practice grenades
Mines
Rifle grenades
Smoke grenades
Projectile and concussive products that
employ gunpowder or explosives
Explosives regulated by Natural Resources
Canada
Other prohibited items:
Body armour and vests designed for the
insertion of body armour or body armour plates
Pepper spray
Stun guns
Crossbows that can be aimed and fired with
one hand and crossbows with an overall length of 500mm or less
Certain martial arts items, such as:
Brass, plastic or metal knuckles
Spiked wristband
Morning star (or any similar device)
Nunchaku (also known as num chucks)
Zoobow (also known as clackers or kung fu
sticks)
Kubotan (also known as kubaton or kobutan)
that are enhanced with sharpened ends, telescoping tubes, spikes, or enclosed
canisters of pepper spray
Batons (also known as kiyoga or steel cobra
- or any similar device )
Billy clubs (i.e. billysticks,
truncheons, nightsticks, paddy wacker, non-spring loaded batons and weighted
clubs) and other blunt force striking instruments, including items marketed for
striking a person or animal
Leaded cane/staff/crutch/stick
Throwing stars (also known as shurikens)
Weighted fighting chains (also known as
manrikigusari or kusari)
Mace, tear gas, or any similar device
Stun guns and electroshock weapons
"Slasher" knives or other devices used in
cockfighting
Weapons designed to be concealed
Weapons or other items intended solely for law
enforcement or military use