Public Safety committee  No, they would not be illegal, however, the firearms themselves may not be eligible for grandfathering if Bill C-71 were to pass.

Public Safety committee  I can't answer that.

Public Safety committee  I have just one clarification to Paula's point. If you had already acquired another CZ 858 prior to June 30, then you would be eligible to own that second firearm, owned post-June 30, because you would qualify as a grandfathered firearms owner.

Public Safety committee  It's both. The firearm would be grandfathered, and the individual would be grandfathered as well.

Public Safety committee  I apologize, sir. I didn't quite—

Public Safety committee  If I understand your question, currently if you were to buy a CZ 858, that firearm would be deemed to be either non-restricted or restricted, depending on barrel length. If the firearm is non-restricted, you could acquire it without any issue. If it's restricted, you would have t

Public Safety committee  Oh, in July, sorry.

Public Safety committee  If you were to acquire one of the CZ 858s that would be deemed prohibited—because not all will—should this legislation pass as written, on July 5 nothing would happen. However, once the law passes and comes into force, and there is a requirement for you to attempt to register tha

Public Safety committee  I can't answer the question in terms of perceived risk to public safety. All I can say is that the amendments you are putting forward right now would therefore, on somebody who is renewing their application, on personal history questions about previous incidents, exclude things t

Public Safety committee  Sorry, then I misinterpreted.

Public Safety committee  The firearms allocation right now only requires individuals to disclose things within the last five years, so no, they would not necessarily take further things into consideration because the firearms application right now requires individuals to disclose the last five years.

Public Safety committee  That's if they are made aware of it.

Public Safety committee  There is a self-disclosure portion to the firearms application, so if the individual is not obliged to disclose beyond five years, then the likelihood of the CFO knowing about it would be fairly low.

Public Safety committee  Kind of. The only point I would make, Mr. Motz, is that you've used the term “background checks” quite a bit in reference to the five-year period. The five-year period certainly does apply to the background checks, but the current eligibility goes beyond just the background che

Public Safety committee  But the whole notion of a background check really specifically relates to criminal records check and that really is only covered under the 5(2)(a) at that point, so criminal background checks are things that would come out of CPIC and be exclusively flagged. For example, things