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The #CBSA is #ProtectingCanadians by stopping weapons at the border. In 7 days, 11 illegally imported firearms, 4 weapons, 186 rounds of ammunition & 19 magazines - all undeclared - were seized from U.S. residents entering Canada in #SouthernOntario.
"CBC News has learned that recent criminal charges against an Ottawa police officer relate to alleged intimate partner violence and involve a police-issued Glock pistol." #ottawa
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Project CLUSTER: Arrest made in a firearm manufacturing and trafficking investigation involving “ghost guns.”
These are privately made, fully functioning firearms that can be difficult to trace.
Officers seized 3D-printed handguns, parts to assemble 24 prohibited firearms, and digital files used to make them.
More: https://t.co/BwvseXj2yT
The provincial government's amendments to the Saskatchewan Firearms Act are now in force, Justice Minister Tim McLeod announced at a news conference on Monday #guncontrol#sask
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New offences include discharging firearms from a vehicle and operating a vehicle that is illegally transporting a firearm, according to the province. #guncanada#BC
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Albertans who declared banned guns still can’t get compensation - More than 7,000 banned weapons declared but jurisdictional dust-up holding up claims
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Indigenous BC man who shot his sleeping wife and shot at his cousin (and his home) after a 17-hour drinking binge sentenced to 7 years. The Crown wanted 16 years and argued that the fatal incident occurred within “a broader pattern of intimate partner violence… rather than as an isolated event.” The killer’s cousins testified that she’d made past remarks about him being abusive. One of them said Poole once said something to the “effect that if she ever died, Mr McCook would be the one who killed her.” https://t.co/8OWjT0ELVO