We know this because…

A law unto themselves;

…the draft manual (obtained through access to information by independent firearms researcher Dennis Young) shows that RCMP’s K Division is intent on making gun grabbing a permanent part of its disaster action plan.
Since it remains a criminal offence in Canada to store a gun in your home without a trigger lock or outside a locked cabinet, the Mountie manual urges officers in the middle of a rescue operation to round up all the guns the see.
“You may seize any item in plain view that may provide evidence of the commission of an offence, if there is a pre-existing lawful reason for intrusion upon the person or premises,” the document claims.

… goes horribly right.

“All he could do was hide”.

Lorne Gunter;

Despite having campaigned in three federal elections to repeal all of C-68 if given a majority, the Harper Tories wimped out and only axed the registry. They left unchanged several Draconian anti-gun laws and regulations, such as permitting a gun owner’s ex-spouse to have his licence suspended on the flimsiest of pretexts or granting the RCMP the right to ban any class of firearm, without permission from Parliament or even the courts.
It is still possible for average Canadians who own a gun for hunting or target shooting or vermin control on a farm to spend years in prison for not having all the right paperwork authorizing them to buy a firearm, to buy ammunition for that firearm and to transport that firearm to a gun range.
In other words, with their repeal of the registry the Tories only scratched the surface of the Liberals’ de facto attempt to outlaw civilian gun ownership in Canada. It was one of the unrepealed sections of C-68 that came back last week to bite the law-abiding firearms community.

Send it to your MP. (h/t don morris)

“Not Criminally Responsible”
Meanwhile:

Punishment
(2) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1)
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of
(i) in the case of a first offence, three years, and
(ii) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, five years; or
(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

Don’t stop contacting your MP’s. When you do progress like this happens.

OTTAWA – Owners of popular rifles that the RCMP has re-classified as “prohibited” will be protected by a new federal amnesty.
“I will bring forward an amnesty to ensure that individuals in possession of these firearms can continue to possess their property without threat of criminal charges,” Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said Monday.

They told us.
More here:

The Government of Canada was supposed to assist in this with periodic new legislation and Order in Council (OIC).
The RCMP have been doing this unilaterally since 2006. Access to information records show that RCMP have an aggressive firearms reclassification agenda, and that prohibitions will not stop with the Swiss Arms Series Rifles. These rifles were approved for import by the RCMP have been sold in Canada for over a decade. Owners once held registrations for them under the now defunct long gun registry. There has never been a crime or incident of violence committed with one of these rifles.
NFA condemns this RCMP assault on the rights and private property of law abiding Canadians. The RCMP has shown contempt for the rights of Canadians by their actions, and we expect the Government of Canada to take steps and introduce measures to reign in the RCMP and end the assault against the rights, property and freedoms of Canadians.

Add your name to the petition, The RCMP abuses C-68.
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Remember High River: cast your e-VOTE to support Motion M-439 to privatize the functions and operation of the Canadian Firearms Registration System. Start here.

Hear my prayer.

The full documentary.

Watch Broken Trust – a Sun News feature documentary featuring noted journalist Lorne Gunter on the High River gun grab by the RCMP. It premiers
on December 10 at 7 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. MT on Shaw Digital 177, Bell 506, Shaw Direct 149/517.

Sun News;

The Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP is sending investigators to High River, Alta. as it looks into complaints that Mounties
illegally seized firearms during June flooding there, QMI Agency has learned.
“Commission investigators will be in High River from December 9th to 13th to speak to persons who may have been impacted,” said Richard Evans, the commission’s senior director of operations, in an email to Sun Media.
The commission is conducting an “expedited” investigation after irate citizens spoke out at a public meeting over the summer, complaining about Mounties taking away rifles and shotguns after bursting into flood-abandoned homes to conduct searches.
Evans says anyone who wants to speak to investigators should call 1-800-267-6637 or send an email to reviews@cpc-cpp.gc.ca.

h/t syncrodox