Bushmaster ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle)
The flagship modular rifle that the Canadian sport-shooting market remembers from 2010-era marketing campaigns. Named in 2024 alongside Bushmaster's entire civilian catalogue.
Is the Bushmaster ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle) banned in Canada? Yes. The Bushmaster ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle) is prohibited in Canada. It was named in SOR/2024-248 (December 2024). If you owned one before the deadline, confirm whether it appears on the federal Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program list. The current amnesty for prohibited firearms expires 90 days after the latest Supreme Court appeal termination under SOR/2026-114.
Classification: Prohibited · OIC/SOR: SOR/2024-248 · Ban-Risk: Already Gone · Compensation: Confirm federal list · Amnesty: SCC appeals + 90 days
Verdict
The Bushmaster ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle) was the company's flagship modular platform from 2010 onward — a Magpul-designed (originally "Masada") short-stroke piston rifle Bushmaster licensed and brought to production in 2008. Caliber-conversion in minutes; folding stock; modular polymer body; positioned as the AR-15's successor in marketing materials of the era. Canadian sport shooters bought it because it offered features the AR-15 didn't — non-direct-impingement operation, faster caliber swaps, and the modular polymer body that read differently on a range line. SOR/2024-248 named the ACR alongside the BACR sub-variant and the older Bushmaster M17S bullpup on December 5, 2024 — Bushmaster's complete Canadian civilian catalogue prohibited in one Order in Council. The entry sits alongside the SCAR 16S and the Tavor TAR21 in the "flagship-tier modular semi-auto" cluster of the postmortem set.
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Lineage
Parents: Magpul Masada (design reference, never reached civilian production)
Siblings: Bushmaster BACR (prohibited SOR/2024-248), Bushmaster M17S bullpup (prohibited)
Derived: ACR Enhanced, ACR DMR
Primary sources for this entry
- Canada Gazette — SOR/2024-248 — Canada Gazette. accessed 2024-12-06
- Bushmaster Firearms — ACR product page — Manufacturer. accessed 2026-05-27
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