Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
On January 1st, a new Order in Council was published in the Canada Gazette that repeals a series of regulations that limit the RCMP's ability to amend firearm records with regard to classification and classification decisions.
The move re-opens a familiar avenue for firearm prohibition familiar to long-term owners of CZ858 and Swiss Arms rifles, allowing RCMP firearms technicians to effectively prohibit firearms by amending Firearms Reference Table (FRT) records, as they did in 2014 to prohibit the aforementioned semi-automatic long guns - triggering the creation of the very regulations that are now being repealed.
But does the RCMP's reacquired ability to prohibit firearms indicate a motive to do so? Or is this latest OIC an answer to a question around the authority granted by the regulations; correcting a longstanding issue around the gap between their intent and their empowering legislation?
It's a complicated question...
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Read the OIC's Gazette entry here: gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2025/2025-01-01/html/sor-dors276-eng.html
The REGS Meeting where the issue was initially identified by Counsel: parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/REGS/meeting-48/evidence
The last REGS Meeting where the Committee provided the final acceptable timeline for the regulations to be repealed: parl.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/REGS/meeting-18/evidence
Other sources: TheGunBlog.ca, who broke the story: thegunblog.ca
This same perspective, but in text: calibremag.ca/frt-recordkeeping-regs-repealed-but-why-might-actually-surprise-you
@RunkleOfTheBailey who produced an excellent alternative perspective on this OIC.
@SoapBoxGuns who has also produced an excellent alternative perspective!
On January 1st, a new Order in Council was published in the Canada Gazette that repeals a series of regulations that limit the RCMP's ability to amend firearm records with regard to classification and classification decisions.
The move re-opens a familiar avenue for firearm prohibition familiar to long-term owners of CZ858 and Swiss Arms rifles, allowing RCMP firearms technicians to effectively prohibit firearms by amending Firearms Reference Table (FRT) records, as they did in 2014 to prohibit the aforementioned semi-automatic long guns - triggering the creation of the very regulations that are now being repealed.
But does the RCMP's reacquired ability to prohibit firearms indicate a motive to do so? Or is this latest OIC an answer to a question around the authority granted by the regulations; correcting a longstanding issue around the gap between their intent and their empowering legislation?
It's a complicated question...
_____
Support this reporting by getting a subscription here: calibremag.ca/subscribe
Read the OIC's Gazette entry here: gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2025/2025-01-01/html/sor-dors276-eng.html
The REGS Meeting where the issue was initially identified by Counsel: parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/REGS/meeting-48/evidence
The last REGS Meeting where the Committee provided the final acceptable timeline for the regulations to be repealed: parl.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/REGS/meeting-18/evidence
Other sources: TheGunBlog.ca, who broke the story: thegunblog.ca
This same perspective, but in text: calibremag.ca/frt-recordkeeping-regs-repealed-but-why-might-actually-surprise-you
@RunkleOfTheBailey who produced an excellent alternative perspective on this OIC.
@SoapBoxGuns who has also produced an excellent alternative perspective!
