They're not really gone, they're just not there anymore

In response to this post about Peter Van Loan's belated tabling of the 2008 Report of the Commissioner of Firearms, one of Kady O'Malley's commenters asked why the RCMP Firearms registry was playing hide the penny with pre-Harper era reports from the Commissioner of Firearms.

That's a good question.

Why would the reports no longer be available in the place where interested people would look for them?

Do they say something surprising or, perhaps, disturbing?

To make life simpler for everybody who might want to check this out, here are the missing reports from the Commissioner of Firearms as posted on the PWGSC Depository Services Program website.

2003
2004
2005