Dingus, Loki, other members please edit, add to, delete parts or tweak this email where you see necessary. I want to send this out to Provincial CFO, my MP, the minister of safety, and anyone else you can think of.
(PS dingus I plagurized a lot of your initial post) Typos will be fixed, I did this on my iphone and spell check wasnt working.
I am a law abiding Canadian gun owner, firearms business owner, and supporter of the CPC.
It has been brought to my attention that the RCMP/CFC have made an Addendum to the Altered Centerfire Antique Handguns policy at the same time the FRT changes for the Swiss Arms family of rifles went into effect.
The new addendum says that an antique handgun must be built in an antique cartridge to start with. The handgun must have started life in a prescribed antique caliber or the RCMP/CFC will not grant the firearm in question its proper legal antique status. This is completely contrary to both the law and and the RCMP/CFC's previous precedent of granting antique status letters to firearms that were previously restricted under the law based on caliber (and not age). This means that guns that were built before 1897 and were converted to an antique status caliber are now no longer considered prescribed antique firearms by the RCMP/CFC (unless the handguns were in an antique caliber originally and changed to another antique caliber). Essentially this means the RCMP/CFC will no longer de-register restricted firearms or issue antique letters to handguns that made the antique firearm age requirement and were then converted to an antique caliber. How can the RCMP essentially change the law (SOR/98-464) overnight by arbitrarily changing their policy regarding antique firearms? How can the RCMP/CFC throw out close to a decade of precedent that they themselves set? This decision has overnight damaged law abiding business's and devalued law abiding antique gun owners collections substantially while at the same time delving into a legal quagmire. I thank you in advance for your time looking into this matter and look forward to your reply.
Stephen Goota
Canadian Operations Manager
IRUNGUNS INC
(PS dingus I plagurized a lot of your initial post) Typos will be fixed, I did this on my iphone and spell check wasnt working.
I am a law abiding Canadian gun owner, firearms business owner, and supporter of the CPC.
It has been brought to my attention that the RCMP/CFC have made an Addendum to the Altered Centerfire Antique Handguns policy at the same time the FRT changes for the Swiss Arms family of rifles went into effect.
The new addendum says that an antique handgun must be built in an antique cartridge to start with. The handgun must have started life in a prescribed antique caliber or the RCMP/CFC will not grant the firearm in question its proper legal antique status. This is completely contrary to both the law and and the RCMP/CFC's previous precedent of granting antique status letters to firearms that were previously restricted under the law based on caliber (and not age). This means that guns that were built before 1897 and were converted to an antique status caliber are now no longer considered prescribed antique firearms by the RCMP/CFC (unless the handguns were in an antique caliber originally and changed to another antique caliber). Essentially this means the RCMP/CFC will no longer de-register restricted firearms or issue antique letters to handguns that made the antique firearm age requirement and were then converted to an antique caliber. How can the RCMP essentially change the law (SOR/98-464) overnight by arbitrarily changing their policy regarding antique firearms? How can the RCMP/CFC throw out close to a decade of precedent that they themselves set? This decision has overnight damaged law abiding business's and devalued law abiding antique gun owners collections substantially while at the same time delving into a legal quagmire. I thank you in advance for your time looking into this matter and look forward to your reply.
Stephen Goota
Canadian Operations Manager
IRUNGUNS INC
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