Originally Posted by
welsh
This is actually the key problem: a lack of transparency in the process.
More than anything else, this is the problem with the RCMP having control over classification: the RCMP culture (and police culture in general) promotes the idea that the agency is not accountable to the public and that its internal documents are secret. But the firearms classification process ought to be open, because classification is supposed to be based on hard criteria.
Meanwhile, a whole lot of silence from the Chicken Little crowd on the evil Liberals deferring marking regulations while the RCMP has classified some guns as non-restricted....