The magic numbers are 5 round capacity for center fire semi automatic longarms (whether they are restricted or non-restricted) and 10 round capacity for handguns. There are some exemptions to this; certain "historic" magazines such as Bren 100 round drum mag, machine gun belts if they were made for a pre-45 gun, and luger drum mags along with some others.
So you can have a 100 round Bren drum, but you can't have a 30 round magazine unless it has been pinned to 5 rounds. Which is a moot anomaly here since you can't get a permit to take the Bren to the range anyway in Canada.
Internal magazines for rifles and shotguns also fall under these capacities. So a 41 Johnson rifle has to be blocked to 5. A M1 garand is specifically exempt, and can hold 8 rounds.
I like my semi-auto, non restricted M1919. I use the 250 round belts, and they are exempt under these rediculous laws.
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