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You're not allowed to transport ammunition or firearms when you move. Moving Company won't assume the liability.Nope. A full inventory of items to be moved is done before the packing phase.
Maybe the driver/operator could be co-charged.
You have to secure your own means to move them. But only someone who owned firearms and had to move a few times would know that
Devils advocate here.
Couldn't the Major in question have a possible out in that he was not in control of the property during the whole move.
I'm not a lawyer, but since the chain of possession is out of his control, it leads to enough reasonable doubt that he knew it was all there.
I personally can see this being plead down or even totally squashed depending on how much 'firepower' he hires.
Pun intended.
I'm not saying he's innocent. Just saying the threshold between reasonable doubt and found guilty can be pretty narrow.
I'll also be devils advocate. This could also all just be some sort of paperwork error coupled with some overzealous police work.... because we've never seen malicious prosecution for firearms related offences in this Country before
I know someone who ran in to issues with CBSA not with firearms but with animal importation. They are a horse owner and they bought a horse in the US and were transporting it back to Canada. Paper wasn't completed correctly and bam.... they are in Court facing $100k+ fines.
Luckily, judges generally apply more common sense when applying the law.