Public Safety committee  I think that the current provisions provide you a way of removing firearms from your house if you feel that you need time for your health. I think it provides you a way that you could lend these or transport these to a different location for a certain time period. If you're asking the question of whether it allows you to track the mental illness of someone and whether the CFO gets involved to make sure the firearm should go back to that individual, I do not think the current provisions are written like that.

Public Safety committee  My understanding of how it's written right now, without this amendment, is that it provides that flexibility to a CFO to review a licence, to put something under review, so I don't think that “could pose” changes anything. Do you agree?

Public Safety committee  There's nothing we can think of.

Public Safety committee  They are public agents.

Public Safety committee  I believe that's accurate, yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, but I think the definition is just one element. When they talk about the magazine capacity, it's one element to determine—

Public Safety committee  Okay. I'm sorry.

Public Safety committee  That depends on the modifications of the design. That's number one; we would have to evaluate what kind of design changes are made. If it's a new model, it will be applied against the definition. However, it depends on what modifications are made to the firearm, so I really can't answer that until we know what changes are made.

Public Safety committee  I should have said “design”. That was my mistake.

Public Safety committee  Because it's not in the original design, right now, given the way that it's written, it wouldn't be considered.

Public Safety committee  Every firearm, in its specification design, will identify what cartridge magazine is intended for that firearm. They're all over the map. Some of them can come out with two, four, 10 and 20. Others are originally designed for just two and four. It really depends on the manufacturer or the designer of a firearm, and the firearm itself, what type of cartridge magazine it will be designed for.

Public Safety committee  This definition would be prospective, so it would be for the future. The classifications today do not take a cartridge magazine into consideration for classifying a firearm as non-restricted, restricted or prohibited.

Public Safety committee  If I understand the question correctly, you're asking if there is a mechanism...and I guess this would be outside of a design. A firearm is designed for four, but then later on a new cartridge is developed that fits 20 and also fits that firearm, and that could be used in the United States.

Public Safety committee  I have the same answer.

Public Safety committee  It's based on the classification regime. Currently, we don't have registration for non-restricted firearms. When that registration was removed for non-restricted firearms, there was no mechanism for the consistency of updating the firearms reference table. You will find that we're behind in some of the non-restricted firearms.