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The Tavor is importable because it is not mentioned by name, either as an original or derivative design, in Canada's current import pro-hibitions on semi-automatic rifles. It's much to the consternation of American collectors of bullpup rifles, such as my Mom, who would dearly love a Tavor in their collections and can't get one because in the mother of ironys, American laws governing the import of these types of sport-utility rifles are stricter than Canada's in this case. The Shotgun News recently had a report by Kevin Fortier, I believe it was, regarding the impact of such laws on Canada's film-making industry and focusing on a Toronto prop studio and rental warehouse which dealt in guns for the movies. The kinds of things American collectors dream of; rare machine-guns from as far back as the Colt Potato Digger and everything since, examples of every important military small-arm of the past 150 years, all legal to import and use for business purposes...just not for fun. The article also touched on the curious gap in Canadian law which has allowed import of small numbers of Tavor and FAMAS semi-automatic rifles.
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