Yes, but that isn't the issue here. The issue is that they haven't committed an offence with a firearm. They're not a threat to public safety. They're not going to be. They never will be, yet we're suggesting that we will criminalize them.
When you see those individuals, and you watch them.... If the police continue to proceed through the justice system, many times the courts will toss it. When they toss that, in this circumstance, because they have been charged with an offence under the Criminal Code or the Firearms Act, that, in all likelihood, will prevent them from continuing to have a licence and from continuing on with their hobby or whatever it is that they may do.
What I'd like to ask the officials is if they see this amendment as creating such an egregious affront to public safety that it would not make sense to proceed.