I know what you mean but that's supply and demand my friend. No one demands what you're not allowed to supply to them. Dewats, however abhorrent the concept might be, opens up the market for everyone and the item in question still has the same visual ### appeal as a functional one. And to be perfectly honest, despite the RC's best efforts almost every deactivated firearm can be reactivated again someday with some work and a skilled gunsmith. Hell the BATF requires four torch cuts through a receiver to qualify as deactivated and Americans still weld those up into perfectly functional firearms! We just need a regulatory change and the death of C-68 proves gun control CAN be rolled back. Someday.sad day when some ones dewat is worth more than my 12.5 safe queen.
Not true but I think I know where you're coming from. You cannot import a dewat AS a dewat, it gets imported as whatever it really is (prohibited firearm usually) and registered, until a Canadian gunsmith verifies it's been deactivated to Canadian standards. Then it's certified as dewat and removed from the registry. Businesses that can import that class of firearm can bring them in, dewat if it hasn't been done already, and sell them.I don't believe deactivated firearms can be brought into the country anymore for personal ownership. You'd have to find one here already.
Too bad those AK BB guns got banned! They might have looked alright if they upset the RCMP soo much.