Shaun put it nicely and is limited in what he can say.
The OIC
IS law and although it is being challenged by other actions, chances of successfully overturning the law is historically quite low. Not impossible but the case would be a massive undertaking, hence the CCFR attempting to convince a judge that her employer made an evil law with no basis. Given the governments hiding behind cabinet privilege they have no evidence to produce, this actually could help in getting the OIC thrown out.
ATRS is a small and relatively unheard of shop, so has a very small following of support in comparison to say the CCFR. For them to "tilt at windmills" trying to overturn the OIC would be financial suicide. Especially given the dirty pool the Alberta cfo played by her self determination that despite everyone else claiming the contrary, she felt that the FRT WAS law and enforceable. This act of malfeasance/misfeasance literally killed a major percentage of ATRS's income. Pretty hard to fight a legal action with no income, especially the way the government fights actions they are involved in.
Also of note was the flat refusal of ATRS to hand over to her, all their clients information. Not everyone is willing to risk jail to stand up for what is right when the governments minions are WRONG!! Talk about an abuse of power and breaking untold numbers of privacy act laws.
The other cases have provided a significant amount of ammunition for the ATRS case. The admission by Smith in court that the FRT was merely his opinion and was not legally binding was a great benefit as I see it. This pretty much torpedoes the cfo's letter to cease and desist. They just need the Judge to agree and put it on paper.
Meanwhile a small family company has gone 10 months now with minimal income due to this malicious threat by the cfo, 10 months in which they could have been making and selling their rifles, and with little competition. That in itself should demand compensation from the government, cfo and the rcmp lackeys who unlawfully altered the FRT's of not only ATRS products but over 8000 others that were not listed in the OIC(the law).
Should Rick and ATRS win in court a great many people will once again be allowed to use their lawfully purchased firearms. Rick has been very clear that should the win a settlement but lose on the classification issue, the several thousand folks who have Modern Sporters held up in legal limbo would be repaid, something that currently is impossible for them. They took the orders, they made the product and in doing so had to spend the money to purchase the raw materials, pay their machinists, etc. etc.
For these reasons we should be supporting this cause as if it dies from lack of funding we ALL lose.
Any compensation that ATRS may receive from the government will never come close to fixing the anguish being suffered by Rick and his staff.
For 1 to put their entire life into creating something only to have it destroyed by a rogue regime is morally wrong and needs to be stood up for.