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Originally Posted by New Hunter Okotoks
Firearms trafficking? What if a trusted person stole the firearm from the home, a person accidentally left one at the range or in their car and it went missing from there? So it's "firearms trafficking" for Citizens when they go missing but not when Law Enforcement loses them?
Edit, Here's a scenario..... A person is showing a relative a few of their firearms from a large collection and the relative puts a pistol in their coat when the owner goes to another room to get something and doesn't notice that it's missing until the Police ask about it when they are at the home for an unrelated reason. Yes, it's unlikely- but you would think that it's also unlikely that Law Enforcement would lose track of machine guns- but obviously it does happen.
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True story , that happened to a member at my former club. He was working away from home at a camp job for several months. There were some marital issues going on, and when he finally got home and decided to head out to the range to shoot, his gun safe was empty. His wife was the only other person that had access, and when confronted, she told him that she had sold his firearms, including the restricted firearms, months ago. He reported this to the RCMP, because he was afraid that since she could not have sold the restricted firearms legally, she may have sold them to criminals. The RCMP told him that this was a domestic issue, and not their problem. Those firearms could have been used to commit a crime, without the owner having any idea that they were missing.