Public Safety committee  Essentially yes. The CFOs are made aware of offences in real time that match those 400 UCR codes that do generate FIPs. Yes.

Public Safety committee  Basically, if an offence has occurred or a FIP is generated, it would be sent to the chief firearms officer of the jurisdiction where the individual resides. The CFO would look at the nature of that offence. In conjunction with that, he or she would look at, potentially, previous

Public Safety committee  I can't speak for the minister, but perhaps I can speak to the notion of chain of custody, which is linked to this.

Public Safety committee  The reason I would like to say that is that the chain of custody links to the notion of the reference number. If businesses are required to keep records around a firearm, which includes the reference number, and law enforcement has reason to believe that the firearm went through

Public Safety committee  I agree, but the firearm that got to that individual likely originated with a firearms retailer, so the firearms retailer would be recording the reference number of that first point of sale out of the business. There would be a reference number attached to it.

Public Safety committee  I would just clarify that it's just new firearms going through firearms inventories that would be—

Public Safety committee  That's right.

Public Safety committee  Sorry, the reference number and the two licence numbers associated would be.

Public Safety committee  The Canadian firearms information system, CFIS, is the management system used by the Canadian firearms program to manage all aspects of the licensing and registration regime. There would be a segregated database within the CFIS created to—

Public Safety committee  When an individual calls the program, it isn't necessarily specifically in relation to a transfer but rather the verification of a licence associated with the transfer, so what we are recording is the reference number attached to the licence verification. There is no link between

Public Safety committee  It's the same situation with those handguns now. The limitations that are in place around the usage of those firearms at a range would remain the same under Bill C-71.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I can explain the differences. Right now under the current system, when an individual is looking to acquire a firearm after they have acquired a firearms licence, they have to confirm the purpose for which they wish to acquire a handgun, as an example. The two principal purposes

Public Safety committee  As it stands today, if you are a target shooter and you confirm purpose, you are given six authorizations to transport on your licence. If you are a collector, you are only given five. You are not given that additional one transport to a range.

Public Safety committee  If Bill C-71 is passed as written, individuals who currently have authorizations to transport for five or six conditions on their licence would have those additional authorizations rescinded, or revoked. I'm not sure exactly what the term is. Their licence would continue to have