Your News About Guns – Vos Nouvelles Sur Les Armes À Feu
Thieves broke into three outdoor-equipment shops in the Quebec towns of Alma, Sherbrooke and Magog between Oct. 16 and Nov. 13, making off in the middle of the night with about 50 handguns worth tens of thousands of dollars. In the midst of these thefts, on Nov. 7, Toronto police […]
Sixteen Canadian student associations are demanding that the Trudeau government ban the sale of handguns and assault rifles, so that a tragedy like the one at École Polytechnique de Montréal does not happen again. On December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine shot and killed 14 women at the Polytechnique and wounded […]
OTTAWA — Canada’s national homicide rate last year was the highest it’s been in a decade, Statistics Canada says, because of a spike in gang-related violence and shootings. In a report released Wednesday, the agency said there were 660 reported homicides in Canada last year. Not only was that an increase […]
A man managed to drive until his vehicle was hit by at least 15 projectiles near Highway 410 in Brampton. The victim was then transported to a Toronto specialty hospital. We do not know his state of health. This is the second merger of the genre in just over a […]
The RCMP has improved its internal approval process for online postings after sending out a potentially misleading message on firearms earlier this year, a House of Commons committee heard this week. The procedure and house affairs committee has been hearing testimony about whether an RCMP post about Bill C-71 was in contempt of Parliament for treating the Liberals’ […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he wants to tackle a surge of gun violence in Canada by targeting criminals who use weapons illegally, rather than supporting an outright handgun ban. Scheer is to unveil the second part of his plan for improving public safety Tuesday in Delta, B.C.: a policy […]
A man seized a firearm and a citizen at Kingston General Hospital in Ontario on Monday night. According to preliminary information provided by the Kingston Police, the suspect, a prisoner, a Correctional Service Canada officer at approximately 6:00 pm He then opened fire, twice reaching a citizen. The frenzied was […]
Investigations into whether gun licences should be revoked due to violent incidents or mental illness have faced “significant delays” that could endanger public safety, says an internal RCMP review. A lack of timely access to certain police and medical information has contributed to processing backlogs for firearms officers reviewing licence […]
For the third time in a month in the province, an outdoor trade was the scene of a major gun theft. This time, the criminals struck late Tuesday night at Pronature, in Magog, Estrie. They entered the trade around 23h by forcing the back door of the building. Once inside, […]
Most Canadians are shocked to hear that Canada has the fourth highest level of gun violence amongst OECD nations. A revealing comparison is with Japan, which has an absolute ban on firearms. Japan reports an average of 0.005 firearm homicides per 100,000 people per year. Canada, by the same measure, averages 0.48, nearly […]
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