r/canadaguns • u/rastamasta45 • Apr 16 '26
News / Politics / Activism How do U.S. crime guns get into Canada? A smuggler’s plea deal provides answers | CBC Accessibility
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gun-smuggler-plea-deal-9.715946479
u/No_Maybe4408 Apr 16 '26
I wish the CBC would take it further with the statistics surrounding gun crime because after reading that one would assume that 14% or crime guns are of domestic origin. They need to include that guns that cannot be traced are automatically assumed domestic - even if they have never been legally available for sale here.
Does anybody have the statistic on proven domestic sourced firearms used in crime, and that same number minus people taking their own lives? Id bet legally purchased guns by licensed and vetted individuals is low enough to be a rounding error.
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u/guestpassonly Apr 16 '26
that one would assume that 14% or crime guns are of domestic origin.
Very true. Leaving that part out implies that to the viewer/reader without more context.
Which is obviously problematic
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u/rastamasta45 Apr 16 '26
The only way to stop this is to ban more legally acquired guns
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u/default_ad_2026 Apr 16 '26
We could also just let violent offenders back out so they don’t get deported. Solid plan B.
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u/starw24-ps4 Apr 16 '26
So the how is exactly how everyone knows these are getting into Canada. Really wish some of these buyback billions were going into border protection
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u/presdint100 Apr 17 '26
No apparently your gsg and broken ar180s are more dangerous to the public then smuggled guns according to the government
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u/tetraacetic Apr 16 '26
Make sure this point from the article is highlighted for the gun grabbing liberals: 86 percent of firearms seized from criminals in Toronto were smuggled from the US. This indicates that up to 14 percent have another or unknown origin. These statistics do not indicate that licensed firearm owners and their legally acquired firearms are involved in crime.
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u/LordGopu qb Apr 16 '26
That number used to be 75% when Bill Blair was still chief of police. It's gone up in recent years.
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u/Status_Ticket5044 Apr 16 '26
I'd like to see "Person 1" identified, tried and sentenced to 21 years in a highly publicized trial.
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u/Lumindan Apr 16 '26
It's honestly impressive there's not a single mention of the buyback / confiscation that CBC usually promotes. Whenever actual crime is mentioned they just go crickets.
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u/Patsboy101 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
My understanding of the origins of most smuggled firearms into Canada from the US are either stolen or straw purchases before coming over the border.
But one thing I hate is how your government news outlets portray private US gun sales and how the US is the Wild West compared to Canada. I remember seeing this YouTube video of a CBC journalist who was acting like the private sales between regular joes in the US is a bad thing because of a few bad actors who abuse the system. Keep in mind these bad actors are already breaking US law for stealing or straw-purchasing firearms intended for criminal activity.
If Canada really wants to crack down on gun smuggling from the US, amp up border security and keep a close eye on known gun smuggling points so you can catch more of these bad actors trying to get guns into Canada for criminal activity. But that’s too simple, I guess.
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u/nschwart91 Apr 16 '26
If only someone had given the government solid policy proposals to deal with the smuggling and gang problem - oh wait:
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u/GinnAdvent Apr 16 '26
And the sad thing is, it just keep happening repeatedly and the Liberal government continues to do nothing about it. From past to now. Despite many politicians and police agencies said that legal firearm owners and their firearms are not the main issue.
One illegal U.S. handgun, two Ontario teens killed: Tracing the path of a Taurus PT-740
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u/Barbarian_818 Apr 16 '26
You know the conspiracy theory that pharmaceutical companies have a perverse incentive to perpetuate disease?
That kind of thinking is arguably behind Liberal Party of Canada policy. If anyone actually made a significant dent in the sort of gun crime we're actually seeing, the parties on the Left would have to find a new plank for their platform.
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u/GinnAdvent Apr 16 '26
Oh yeah, I know that Liberal want to have gun issues prop up so it can always be a topic of debate.
It's the same with US insurance system for medical claims. It would make more sense and affordable insurance for average American if they have universal health care. But for the amount of jobs and profit making system that lost if they attempt to transition to that would be too great for certain interest group.
Also, it's much cheaper to spend 2 plus billion dollars to do the gun buy back, rather than spend 10 billion dollars plus to strengthen the border and increase police services to fight crimes.
Basically, they are creating an environment where only the haves tangible benefits, and the middle plus the one living at or below poverty line feel good about themselves coz elbow up.
Elbow up is not going to make you feel good. Elbow up is not going to help you defence vast territories against China or Russia. Elbow up is not going to help you have affordable housing, maybe acceptable rent, but you stay renter for rest of your life.
And elbow up certainly not going to help you when someone break into your house and you need to RPG your choices so you don't break the law when you have no potential say what the other individuals is going to do to you and your family.
And this all stem back from those illegals firearm that's crossing the border and it's process, and it's very easy to turn this single issue into multiple issues if you know where to connect the dots. But of course, having a back up plan makes you a conspiracy theorists, lol.
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u/Sammytheseaotter Apr 16 '26
The government lets them smuggle guns in. It's that simple
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u/demonlicious Apr 17 '26
yeah except here the government is law enforcement. why would they do anything that would work for good? they'd be out of a job.
we might have to try new systems to fight crime. law enforcement gets paid double when there is no crime.
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u/Armedfist Apr 16 '26
It was never about public safety. It is about control and taking away the guns from the citizen of Canada.
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u/MemeStarNation Apr 19 '26
There’s so much remote border and so much traffic crossing every day that I really wonder how this is a question at all. People load their car with like twenty handguns and just drive them across. There really isn’t a ton you can do past a certain point.
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