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Have faith!

You are correct when junior securo-crats take themselves far too seriously. They are working on behalf of the nation to keep us safe, don't you know. But everyone works for someone. You need to do more than just lobby against the work of those people. You need to get facetime to show the influencial people that their workers are doing things wrong. They might not care about the substance of the decisions or the artifacts, but they will worry when there is a chance of being found in violation of some other law or being embarrassed in public.

A decade or so ago Canada had a similar tit-for-tat for a couple of containers of deactivated machine guns. The feds didn't like the standards to which the work had been done, and set about to tamper with the seizure to 'prove' the deactivation could be undone. The connivances and bad-intent was obvious, but sadly the owner/importer could not outlast them and he died mid-case. His lawyers relied heavily on our National Firearms Association's expert witnesses who a) could read English and b) find the logic errors in the regulations. He passed away a few years ago too. RIP Dave.

A decade ago one federal politician declared that the national gun control debate was over. Where is she now, and where is Canada's gun control question? She is out of politics, and a bill to abolish the long-gun registry has finally made it to third-reading.