r/canadaguns • u/Trick-Goat-3643 • Jun 11 '26

News / Politics / Activism The misinformation campaign continues

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/most-crime-guns-traced-by-rcmp-came-from-within-canada-internal-reports-say/

"The RCMP centre defines crime guns as firearms that were used or suspected to have been used in criminal offences, guns whose serial numbers have been obliterated or altered, firearms that were found but not reported lost or stolen, and replicas, toys, 3D-printed guns, pellet or air guns that have been used in criminal offences"

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u/Feeling-Water-6824 Jun 13 '26

The article was by design. Its to gain public support because the amnesty got extended. Its intentionally misleading. If you can only trace 100 guns but omit you had 900 you couldn't, then most 'traced' guns are domestic. No mention of the 900 you couldn't. So 90% of guns traced is domestic when in reality it could be less than 10% if you take into account 900. But that doesn't send the right message the government wants.

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u/Trick-Goat-3643 Jun 15 '26

Also helps when you omit the fact 98 of that 100 were BB guns, paintball guns and water pistols...