This is the long term plan for confiscation. They're going to make them illegal and if the cops check your premises for ANY reason (even if you're not involved) you're in deep trouble. I see it all the time, cops arrest someone for some completely unrelated reason and all of a sudden their collection is displayed on the RCMP facebook page like some spoils of war.
Care to share some examples? I have not seen anything like that recently. All the big “busts” that were somewhat unrelated were drug related and just so happens they are in unlawful possession of a bunch of firearms. I can’t remember where someone was arrested for something really dumb, had all their legally owned and stored firearms confiscated and paraded around as if they were a mass shooter.
Had it happen to a friend, crazy drunk chick called the cops on him. They seized everything after arresting him even though he was never charged with anything. He spent months and did eventually get them back but the whole thing was insane.
It’s not that insane. I had mine taken after false accusations were made against me by my ex-wife who was pissed when our kids chose me over her.
Depending on the exact circumstance, it can take a while for the investigation to conclude and/or the crown to decide whether to move forward. Once thats all resolved, there is some work that needs to be done by the police force storing the guns to confirm the matter is resolved and check with the RCMP CFP to ensure they aren’t intending to investigate themselves. Some police forces have mandatory waiting periods after everything is resolved before they will release firearms. It’s a complex situation but, at least in my case, everyone was professional and willing to work with me. The police even ensured I got my prohibs back despite the CFP being pretty wishy washy on the matter of issuing an ATT for them.
I even got a bunch of free MDT chamber flags out of it lol
I totally agree a lot of these situations are complex and the extra time to figure everything out is needed.. in this particular situation the insane part to me was apparently the guys on scene made it pretty clear they knew he hadn’t done anything and she was saying wild shit that couldn’t be true… but still went through with it.
Maybe it was mandatory policy, has always bothered me though. Granted I wasn’t there and heard it from him but in the 20 years I’ve known him he’s always been a straight shooter, won’t even exaggerate his stories to make them interesting lol
This is not the kind of stuff that makes the news. You have to follow in-person, local happenings or local groups, often the RCMP pages themselves. I cannot find the most recent one I can think of cause the page that shared it closed down. Anyhow, the news posts are from the RCMP Facebook pages themselves, when they do their little display things.
Farmer in PEI got RCMP called on him by disgruntled neighbour or something. Reports that he had explosives in his storage shed. He had some components for making explosives, sure... the kind of stuff that would be on any farm, basic chemicals. RCMP confiscated this stuff, and took his .22LR gopher guns. Charged with manufacturing explosives or some shit, guns taken away. The way they worded the story and displayed his little .22LR guns made it sound like he was a terrorist threat, dude was just some farmer.
Even this story we're looking at here, this is probably not a bad guy... was a "wellness check", they find him in his bedroom alone in "medical distress" then take all of his shit. He has a large collection, probably one of the only things he cares about, and now he's been slapped with weapons charges, as if this is going to make his life any better. Dude's gonna kill himself the second he gets the chance.
This is a quote from the article itself: "When members are in a location with lawful authority, even if that authority is not about conducting a criminal investigation, if information and evidence gathered related directly to criminal activity, it can be used to support criminal proceedings. Given the nature of the seizure, members submitted reports to Crown to seek several firearms charges and for a prohibition and disposition order for all the firearms."
If you have ANY sort of illegal firearm on your premises you need to keep your nose 110% clean. If the cops come snooping around for any reason even if you're not involved you risk getting your entire collection taken. The RCMP does not have the manpower to go door to door collecting firearms... but they could definitely whittle away at people's collections over the next 20 years. The Liberals know, they aren't stupid, they're mischievous.
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u/NEUMANN-METALWORKS Neumann Metalworks Mar 27 '26
This is the long term plan for confiscation. They're going to make them illegal and if the cops check your premises for ANY reason (even if you're not involved) you're in deep trouble. I see it all the time, cops arrest someone for some completely unrelated reason and all of a sudden their collection is displayed on the RCMP facebook page like some spoils of war.