Bruce and the CUFOA guys have been travelling around the country for some time, trying to get arrested.
Met with various politicians, burned licenses and such in Ottawa and the provincial capitols, held unlicensed, unregistered skeet shoots (these guys are more about duck guns than AW's). Not much happened.
Ontario, where Bruce got busted, just recently got a new LIBERAL government, Previous Conservative government did not support the Firearms Act so fewer hassles. Now they'll probably get full on enforcement of gun laws there.
There are only like three or four provinces in Canada enforcing the Firearms Act right now, Ontario, Quebec, and a couple of the Maritime provinces that depend on the Fed's for their economies. Western Canada has blown it off as the 2 billion dollar embarrasment it is. The Fed's don't get any co operation there.
The CUFOA guys might get a shot at the constitutionality of the law if they've done their homework, but in most cases like this the Fed's just lay charges under the Criminal Code rather than the Firearms Act, that's how vulnerable this law is. That's how much faith the Ottawa Liberals have in it.
Still, takes a lot of balls to say "come and arrest me". Hope it works out for Bruce.
We're slowly getting rid of this pathetic legislation, like you all got rid of the AW Ban. It takes time. If only we could get Ontario to stop voting in the Liberals.