The Americans are Getting an Cz 805 Bren

[Davy Crockett]

I'm seem to recall Mr Wolverine saying the Skorpion Evo was unlikely to come to Canada as the full auto trigger was a straight drop in.

 

[Ar180shooter]

I'm seem to recall Mr Wolverine saying the Skorpion Evo was unlikely to come to Canada as the full auto trigger was a straight drop in.

Which is a BS excuse from the RCMP, as it's already illegal to import/manufacture/assemble the full auto parts.

 

[X-man]

^this

The NFA needs to lobby for timely classifications if nothing else. Give them one only 1 month after it has been submitted to come to a conclusion or it is NR. If they can't keep up, they need to hire more people.

They're officially registered lobbyists and as such their meetings are logged and available for scrutiny on the internet.

Last official meeting was a year and a half ago.

Gun owners and Parliament are essentially hostage to the near omnipotent power granted the RCMP to classify firearms under the C-68 Firearms Act. We are left in limbo until the RCMP decides to make a decision. Unfortunately there was no time limit set out in the Firearms Act and no provisions in place for legal action to force them to speed up the process or actually do their job. Only AFTER the RCMP has made their ruling may legal action be taken. This is why they were able to drag out the classification of rifles like the FN SCAR and Norinco Type-97. Canada's National Firearms Association had successfully laid out these issues and problems to former Public Safety ministers Stockwell Day and Peter Van Loan. Day retired and Van Loan was shuffled from the portfolio just as he was getting up to speed. His replacement, Vic Toews, was a complete disaster for for gun owners and a gift to the reclassify and ban element within the RCMP. The NFA provided in-depth briefing papers to Toews and an updated brief to his replacement Stephen Blaney last spring in the wake of the Swiss Arms & CZ - 858 fiasco. Initially, the pre-C-42 reforms promised were to be far more expansive than that pathetic abortion of a band-aid "solution" to the problem. However, what can you do when CSSA and OFAH give it the thumbs up and tell government that gun owners will take less?

As for official lobby contact records referenced by Misanthropist, that list only covers official meetings on Parliament Hill when the lobbyist of record is put on the official calendar of the government minister or official involved. This is the whole dog & pony show type meetings, with official photos taken, etc... Real lobbying occurs via less formal contacts via lunches, dinners, drinks, the summer BBQ circuit, party fund raisers, social functions and establishing relationships with important staffers, influential backbenchers and potential ministers-in-waiting.