Chiappa M1-9
Chiappa's 9mm carbine in M1-styled wooden stock. The "historical-aesthetic PCC" niche. Named SOR/2025-86 alongside the broader March 2025 expansion.
Is the Chiappa M1-9 banned in Canada? Yes. The Chiappa M1-9 is prohibited in Canada. It was named in SOR/2025-86 (March 2025). 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/2025-86 · Ban-Risk: Already Gone · Compensation: Confirm federal list · Amnesty: SCC appeals + 90 days
Verdict
The Chiappa M1-9 is a niche 9mm pistol-caliber carbine that filled the "historical-aesthetic PCC" market segment between roughly 2018 and 2025 in Canada — a wooden-stocked M1 Carbine-styled rifle with a modern 9mm chambering and a Beretta 92-pattern-compatible magazine well. Chiappa Firearms in Italy released the design to the US market in 2010 and exported to Canada through the late 2010s and early 2020s at the $899–$1,199 CAD budget-to-mid tier. SOR/2025-86 named the M1-9 on March 7, 2025 — placed alongside the WWII collector-market semi-autos (SVT-40, AG42 Ljungman, Egyptian Rashid covered in pilots and Batch 2). The rubric reads 10/15: the named-clause band for PCC platforms with modest feature set and modest lineage. The historical-aesthetic angle is what made this particular entry distinctive — the M1-9 was specifically marketed as a modern-cartridge version of the WWII M1 Carbine, and the March 2025 OIC's reach into the historical-aesthetic segment validates that classification logic.
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Lineage
Parents: US M1 Carbine (1942 military, historically not generally on the Canadian sport-rifle market in semi-auto civilian form) → Chiappa M1-9 modernized 9mm adaptation (2010)
Primary sources for this entry
- Canada Gazette SOR/2025-86 (Primary, accessed 2026-05-27) — Canada Gazette. accessed 2026-05-27
- Chiappa Firearms M1-9 product page (Manufacturer) — Manufacturer. accessed 2026-05-27
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