Beyond handguns, more exotic firearms have been lost by our police and public agencies, including a report of what are only described as 13 “submachine guns.” There were a total of 10 submachine guns reported “lost” in 2015 followed by one in each of the following three years.
do they smell like goat bum when they find them?
Har har hardee har.
We might consider taking advantage of the coming blowback,against political correctness , overwhelming government in all its glorious incompetence and fiscal collapse.
Since the days of Pierre The Idiot,government has grown,grabbed ever more power and failed miserably to perform the tasks it has taken over.
Health Care being the Flagship of these Government Monopolies.
I propose that the New Country of the West,has open carry for all contributing citizens and unarmed bureaucrats..All of them.
If you work for the Government,you go gunless.
Military being the only exception.
Any “agencies” needing armed protection,shall hire private citizens for the shortest possible time period.
Of course the Cops and DND are the source of many “illegal” firearms,remember the gun registry and those strange “coincidences” by which the criminals knew exactly which homes to target.?
Funny how the Bureaus demand all our information,yet are incapable of maintaining a secure database.
Totally agree, J.R.
Immediately upon declaration of the UDI, Kenny must declare ‘Open Carry’ totally legal. That, in and of itself, will minimize any agression from the ROC and render it pointless.
It will also reinforce the message to the ROC that we are deadly serious about our intentions.
I am so done with the East and for that matter the West, those idiots in the lower mainland that worship the environment.
Given the present international situation, Canada in general and Alberta in particular should be reaping immense rewards and what is happening? – we are fighting over access to tidewater – east and west.
How stupid are we, anyhow???
Well guns are cool. You can’t really blame JBTs for helping themselves to the cooler ones. They know that their houses will be exempted from searches for survivors (like in High River) so what’s the harm? After all, as some jackboot lickers in the past have argued: cops do not need to obey the law because they are the good guys doing a stinking job.
Liberals don’t believe in property rights and most Canadians don’t either.
Sadly true….Buddy.
all in preparation for the day nobody owns anything anyways eh?
the ‘state’ owns it ALL. I mean ALL of it, your very soul and everything all your descendants would have owned.
they will own your memories, your fambly history, all thought, tax the air, tax your excrement, everything you grow for yourself, tax tax tax tax tax,
tax FUTURE income tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax.
the beginnings of this is a compliant easily led populace a la pep rally for the TURDoo travelling circus.
liberalism at its ultimate extreme.
and watch for the cheer leaders who calculate that all those bravos exempt them from the fallout.
Leftists in downtown Toronto will be calling for a ban on guns in the military and police over this.
As worrisome as the loss of these “exotic firearms” may be, Canadian gun crime is almost entirely a result of urban criminal gangs using handguns.
“As worrisome as the loss of these “exotic firearms” may be…”
Oh please. Most of the goat humpers doing crimes in Canada couldn’t find the safety on a C-8. Full-auto to a moron means one round roughly at waist level, the other 29 are in the ceiling.
Those “missing and/or stolen” guns went quietly into collections. They will never, ever show up in a crime.
Because why? Because long guns are not the right tool for the job. You can’t hide it, you can’t point it properly inside a building, and its so loud you’ll be deathly afraid to shoot it. We’re talking “make your ears bleed” loud.
Criminals want pistols. Plain and simple.
They are selling them to augment those miserly public sector salaries and pensions. Shame on me for noticing.
I’m pretty sure that if I had lost my rifle or any other firearm in my charge when I was in the army I’d have been sitting in a jail cell as a result. I’d be curious to see the circumstances behind the loss of firearms by the army.
Army or gun-toting agencies, that’s what gets me. I would expect any such losses to be rigorously investigated, especially given the nature of gun laws in Canada. I’d like to see further information on each of these handgun and fully-auto cases to see what was done, when, and how, and what the results were.
As an additional question, given the number of these thefts, how many turned up being used in criminal activities? Are the numbers even accurately reported?
Not that it matters, though, because everyone knows that it’s the law-abiding sport shooters and hunters that are the problem.
It is possible that military firearms have been lost on operations. Vehicles hit IEDs and burn, soldiers get ambushed and people die and no one is going back to find their rifle. Even firearms lost like that would be reported and show up in statistics for lost firearms. I also heard rumours, don’t know whether they are true or not that soldiers have been caught out “accidentally losing” arms and ammo and then selling them on the black market. When I was an officer cadet at the armour school in Gagetown more years ago than I care to remember we all kept multiple firearms in our locked closets in our barrack rooms. I had a C1 rifle a C2 LMG, a pistol and a sub machine gun in my possession until about half way though the course when an order came down that we had to return all our firearms to the QM and from then going forward they would only be issued when we actually needed them. Something must have prompted that change in direction, but we never found out what it was.
Nope. Those are accounted for. The lost & stolen guns referred to in the article went missing in Canada.
“I would expect any such losses to be rigorously investigated”
They are. Certainly that is true for the military. The consequences of losing a weapon issued to you without reasonable cause are quite – shall we say? – “career-limiting”.
“I’d like to see further information on each of these handgun and fully-auto cases to see what was done, when, and how, and what the results were.”
Then make an Access to Information Act (ATIA) request.
Has Groper blamed Doug Ford yet?
No, but its early yet. Shiny Pony is having his mani/pedi right now, then a light dinner.
I’ve been following a blog site for a number of years now which tracks gun crime and fatalities in the most gun controlled city in America, Chicago.
https://heyjackass.com/
Truly aptly titled, when you consider that the majority of voters in the GTA are in favour of more gun control. Only a jackass or a Democrat(Liberal) would swallow the propaganda that if we get rid of the guns we’ll all be safer. That kind of thinking really worked out well in Britain, didn’t it.
on the propaganda angle, see my reply to steakman at 9:18
Britain does not have enough guns to buy back now so the criminals and police have taken to focussing on (kitchen) knives – and spoons (Google it). I don’t think London is any safer now than it was yeas ago, in fact a lot less so. Not a good example to follow.
Wait aren;t those guns in police inventory registered? So how can they be stolen?
I pity the poor bastards who got their hands on the CFs Browning Hi Power pistols. They are useless and falling apart anyway. Good riddance.
How the hell do you “lose” a sub-machine gun? “Now where did I leave that AR-15? It was just here a minute ago. I thought it was there with my cellphone.”
The U.S. government’s law enforcement agencies lose machine guns, too. There was a tourist killed in San Francisco before the 2016 election by an illegal immigrant whose defense (accepted by the jury, probably to spite Trump) was that he had found it, and did not know it was a real gun. It was stolen the previous day from a U.S. Park Police vehicle.
No to be nitpicking but AR-15 is not a sub-machine gun.
Yeah. When this article talks about police/military losing 13 submachine guns, they’re talking about losing 13 HK MP5s.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5-1.jpg/1200px-Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5-1.jpg
see? cops are BIG part of the gun problem. the problem being keeping them OUT of the hands of caaaRIMinals.
there was a case in st catharines ages ago, the CHIEF, one jim gayder, was found to have seized guns mysteriously showing up in his PERSONAL locker.
far out.
how dat ‘appen chum?