This race will take at least 3 years from now to conclude at the rate RCMP works. The Beretta ARX100 has been sitting there for over a year already.
In terms of getting stuff approved, NS has a pretty good track record of actually getting things approved and they haven't got anything reclassified under their belt yet AFAIK. I don't know who will be doing the desert tech, but sometimes it also has to do with the skill and the relationship of the importer with the lab.
Actually the lab has had Beretta ARX for close to 2 and a half years. Stoeger Canada had Beretta fashion up a 18.5 inch model early in the process to help get this to the Canadian market sooner. Everything was pretty much done on the rifle when submitted except for the gas adjustment switch Beretta took a year to tinker with. Hence the delay in the ARX coming to the American market.




















































