Springfield Armory Hellion
Released to the Canadian market in 2023. Prohibited by the OIC the next year. The shortest commercial life of any rifle on the Index.
Is the Springfield Armory Hellion banned in Canada? Yes. The Springfield Armory Hellion 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
Springfield Armory imports the Croatian HS Produkt VHS-2 bullpup as the Hellion. The rifle was released to the US civilian market in 2022 and arrived in Canada in 2023 — Canadian retailers had stock for less than fifteen months before SOR/2024-248 named it. Sport shooters who bought one in early 2024 had a working rifle for under a year. The rubric scores it 12/15 cleanly — every dimension in its expected place for a modern bullpup of military lineage. What the entry argues editorially is the cadence: between US release and Canadian prohibition, the Hellion existed in the Canadian non-restricted market for fewer months than it took to manufacture a single production run. The Index keeps the entry because the rifle's commercial life and its prohibited life are now nearly the same span, and that is the methodological case for tracking rifles by family rather than by feature set.
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Lineage
Parents: HS Produkt VHS-2 (Croatian military select-fire, never civilian-legal)
Siblings: none currently in Springfield catalogue
Derived: none
Primary sources for this entry
- Canada Gazette — SOR/2024-248 — Canada Gazette. accessed 2024-12-06
- Springfield Armory — Hellion product line — 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.
