Think about that for a moment and how much infringement on our gun rights we have despite the Second Amendment, now imagine how bad it would be if there was no Second Amendment to protect them. That’s the reality on the ground up in Canada.
Further, their black market is no different than ours. They deal primarily in stolen guns.
Yet that black market is also used to justify further restrictions on guns for the law-abiding Canadians. Well, if that’s the case, then maybe lawmakers ought to start looking at the military and the Mounties too.
One of the arguments gun control advocates will make for calling for an outright ban on handguns or certain rifles is that if regular citizens don’t have these firearms in their homes, they can’t be lost or stolen to be used in a crime.
Newly-released documents from the RCMP and other federal departments and agencies show that if the risk of lost and stolen guns is an issue, then we better think of taking guns from the Mounties, maybe even the military.
Firearms researcher Dennis Young obtained a list of the number of guns lost or stolen by police or public agencies from 2005 through 2019 and the numbers might shock you.
A total of 640 firearms were reported lost in that time frame, another 173 were reported stolen.
That includes 469 handguns reported lost and another 117 handguns stolen.
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