Businesses and.... Most of them are verifiers, and they do use the Criminal Code to identify the classification of firearms. Where the problem comes in is that there are varying degrees of regulations that have now been put in place that the businesses may not be aware of. When they deem a firearm to be non-restricted because of the barrel length, they don't recognize that there's another order in council or there's another regulation.
On April 25th, 2023. See this statement in context.