He’s a manufacturer, I’m sure he knows more than most on here about the laws and the shenanigans of the RCMP lab after submitting more than a couple of firearms for classification. What does it matter that #### is proprietary? Those azz clowns

have determined that the Mossberg 715 is an AR-15 variant!
According to the lab they didn’t manufacture a NR, they made an AR variant. I assume they didn’t submit it to the lab because they didn’t want to chance a ruling. Pretty naive (willful ignorance?) to not verify before making a major investment.
As for what he’s smoking, what they did is against the law if the lab is correct and they’ve been making prohibs. Weapons trafficking, CCC 99 (1), and possession of computer data CCC 102.1 (1) are two charges they could use. So yes, it does matter what you can do with some CAD files.