It seems like some of your firearms laws are as nonsensical as some of ours...That's often the case though - we're collared with laws that just simply do not make sense, like the 14"/16" thing.
I'd like to have suppressors unregulated, at least for rifles; I thin it is completely stupid that we cannot have them. It does not make the rifle any more dangerous, or less, just quieter. Sure, restrict them for handguns as there's no real reason for it, but when I start banging away on the long guns when out culling people know about it...A suppressor would limit some of that noise, and attention.
So, when a person dies the firearms branch often take possession of the firearms if there is no other alternative. They are then sold off and the monies go back through to the estate of the deceased. In my case my wife will contact one of my friends who will come over and take ownership - Guns can be loaned here and as the executor of my will my wife would have the ability to do so until they could be sold. I have a couple of friends who are licensed dealers. If someone was just to die and had nothing set up then it's firearms branch who take the guns and that's where problems arise.
