Oh really? What legal grounds exactly? Are you a lawyer?
No, i am not a lawyer. And this is not a legal issue, so i shouldnt have said "they do have the legal grounds"
What they have is the authority to classify each firearm. The FA is a very convoluted piece of legislation, which is interpreted many different ways. Us CGN'ers, the CFO, the anti's, and even the police interpret it differently -
however all that matters is how the CFO / RCMP perceives it when they assign a firearm its classification, regardless of how ascew their rationelle seems to be. There are far too many frustrating examples, but thats just the way it is.
We can lobby against decisions they have made or are planning to make ie) the GSG-5 / colt m4 22, but you cant argue that they didnt have "legal grounds" to assign that rifle its classification in the first place.