Henry Homesteader
Henry's first PCC. Released to the Canadian market in 2023; SOR/2024-248 named it within 14 months. The shortest Henry production run on the Canadian market.
Is the Henry Homesteader banned in Canada? Yes. The Henry Homesteader 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 Henry Homesteader is Henry Repeating Arms' first pistol-caliber carbine — a departure from Henry's lever-action portfolio that the company introduced in 2023 to capture the PCC market that the Ruger PC Carbine and the Smith FPC were splitting. Walnut stock, brass receiver, blowback action accepting Glock, Sig P320, and S&W M&P magazines via interchangeable inserts. The rifle arrived in Canadian retailers in mid-2023 and reached the Canadian market for approximately fourteen months before SOR/2024-248 named it on December 5, 2024. The rubric scores it 10/15: standard PCC profile, modest lineage, named clause activating Already Gone. The Homesteader sits with the Springfield Hellion (Batch 2) as the cluster of "rifles with single-digit months of Canadian-market life before prohibition." Henry's lever-action portfolio (the Long Ranger in Batch 4, the AR-7 in this batch, others) remains Non-restricted; the company's PCC experiment is over.
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Lineage
Parents: Henry Long Ranger (sibling Henry centrefire platform, Non-restricted)
Siblings: None on the SOR list directly; Henry's lever-action portfolio is unaffected.
Derived: None.
Primary sources for this entry
- Canada Gazette — SOR/2024-248 — Canada Gazette. accessed 2024-12-06
- Henry Repeating Arms — Homesteader product page — Manufacturer. accessed 2026-05-27
Safety note: the Ban-Risk Index is editorial estimation, not legal advice or a substitute for current official guidance. The classification field reflects current RCMP FRT status as of the last-scored date. For any transfer, surrender, deactivation, or transport question, consult primary RCMP / Public Safety Canada sources and, where appropriate, a Canadian firearms lawyer.
