The police charge the teenage children and mother with unauthorized possession under section 91, because they know where dad keeps his guns and can access and touch the guns. The police believe a gun is still a firearm even when trigger locked or action locked or even if the bolt is removed. Remember that a firearm includes the frame. In England a son loses his gun license because his elderly mother knows where the key to his gun safe is and she therefore is in unauthorized possession and he loses his gun license because he was grossly negligent. T hese same words were used to have the firearm license of the son and husband in the prior two examples revoked .
Hearings are pending but there is no resolution yet.
The worst of this is that no one is taught about this quirk of the law. Master instructors are shocked by this application of the law. This is not in the pamphlets of the Canadian Firearms Centre and it is not in the Canadian Firearm Safety Course. Yet the law exists and is being applied to charge the relatives of gun owners and to revoke firearms licenses. Have everyone in your household licensed to the same level.