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/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?