r/canadaguns • u/airchinapilot • 1d ago

News / Politics / Activism Water cops find illicit surprises inside boat moored in False Creek | Daily Hive

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-police-false-creek-boat

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is sharing some information about the search of a boat moored in False Creek after it received a report that someone aboard it had allegedly fired a suppressed gun into the water.

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u/AdditionalLoss7274 1d ago

But how? Suppressors are ILLEGAL.

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u/Jimbo_Slice1919 1d ago

This is why the government has banned so many firearms previously deemed legal to own in Canada. It’s also precisely why they have offered to buy said firearms back with a generously large pool on a first come first serve basis, knowing that pool is less then the value of all restricted firearms they know of!
Let’s hope they win the OIC challenge so they can offer me a couple grand for my new ICE vehicle!
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u/Borealbound 16h ago

Porous border is one guess, some dude with a lathe or even a 3D printer is another. Having shot suppressed rifles and PCC’s in the US, they are actually really nice and should be only as regulated as any other firearms component is. 

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u/Barbarian_818 1d ago

An important question is whether this is a Canadian owned and registered boat.

Where I am, we see a fair number of US registry fresh water craft. And in most cases "border and customs inspection" consists of picking up a phone at the marina and talking to a CBP officer. (I think, but do not actually know, that bigger moorages use a video phone system)

The important thing here is that an American can easily own a suppressor legally back home. Then bring it along and simply fail to declare it.

In the US, the suppressor is legally kind of a Registered Weapon in its own right. You have to tell the feds and get a tax stamp. But the tax was set to 0$ a while back. So a guy with one suppressor fitted to a single pistol is a guy I assume fully intended to take the device back home after his trip to Canada.

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u/Guardian2676 1d ago

Do you think the baggies of meth and fent were also legally registered back home?