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Police raided Rodger Kotanko’s Simcoe, Ont., workshop over two seized handguns they believed he had transferred after illegally removing their serial numbers. On Tuesday, Kotanko’s family launched a $23 million lawsuit arguing in part that this claim makes no sense.