The RCMP are quietly adding more guns to the list of 1,500 banned by the federal government earlier this month.
Maple Ridge, B.C., gun store co-owner Matt Mendel said he heard rumours that more and more firearms were being banned, and sure enough, when he started checking weapons his store was selling in the national Firearms Reference Table (FRT), it was true.
He said most of the firearms added to the list were shotguns.
The RCMP, which manages the FRT through the Canadian Firearms Program, sent a statement to CBC confirming the re-classification was taking place beyond the original list of 1,500, and so far no public notification has taken place.
“The Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) has been working diligently to ensure that the FRT is updated to reflect all of the classification changes resulting from the Order in Council issued May 1st,” read the statement to the CBC.
Mendel said the Typhoon F12, a semi-automatic shotgun, was listed as non-restricted on May 14, but then a subsequent FRT search the following day showed it as prohibited.
“If I wasn’t a diligent business owner and constantly kept my ear to the ground with this sort of thing, I could have been selling illegal firearms to people, and people could be possessing illegal firearms without even knowing it,” Mendel told CBC.
The store stands to lose $30,000 to $40,000 for a dozen firearm models that have been reclassified as prohibited.
“As a business, we just hold on to that and we lose that money. We’ve paid for those firearms, and now they’ll sit in my basement … forever essentially,” said Mendel.
Dave Naylor is News Editor & Calgary Bureau Chief of the Western Standard based in the Calgary Headquarters. He served as City Editor of the Calgary Sun & covered Alberta news for nearly 40 years.
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