The RCMP need to be taken out of the classification business as they are a political (anti gun) lobby in and of themselves. All too often the police (Rcmp or otherwise, at least their "leadership" (not so much the front line beat cops) ask for a law to be made and the political officials do it "to support the law enforcement community", such as MLAs giving the Halifax Chief of police the Body Armor Control Act that he ASKED for (nova scotia) or the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police going on about how THEY want the long gun registry.
also, having just read this article
http://globalnews.ca/news/1038496/in...r-gun-control/
it looks like the RCMP are the POLITICAL force behind all of this reclassification stuff.........
a *political lobby group*
Why is law enforcement so involved in law and policy making?
We need an impartial non political body (yet educated and knowledgeable on firearms and their use by mainstream Canadians) to classify firearms
We need an impartial non political body (yet educated and knowledgeable on firearms and their use by mainstream Canadians) to advise the government on its gun policy making
Given that the Firearms Act was an emotional response to a tragedy that millions of lawful firearms owners have nothing to do with and its utter subjectively "reasonable belief" or "secured" in combination with is application by arguably anti-gun and politically motivated RCMP I feel that the Firearms Act itself needs to be strongly amended whilst cutting the RCMP out of the firearms regulation and classification scheme entirely.