No No No No! We got the FRT verbal OK 4 days after the election the rifle was shipped to the SFSS/RCMP 3 months prior. Being as the Varmint is simply a scaled down "variant" of our Modern Hunter, which took 3 YEARS for them to determine was NON Restricted, the follow on of the Varmint was easier. Technically it could have been with photos and a schematic as the guns , apart from dimensions are identical.