Colt Canada Corp. was the RCMP’s biggest supplier of guns last year, as Canada’s national police equipped officers with AR-15 rifles. M.D. Charlton Co., which sells SIG Sauer, Mossberg and Winchester among its brands, came second, followed by Smith & Wesson Corp. in third place.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police bought more than $8.7 million of weapons and parts in 2016, according to calculations by TheGunBlog.ca based on contract reports on the RCMP’s website. The amount includes only orders exceeding $10,000.

The federal police purchased $2.7 million in firearms from Kitchener, Ontario-based Colt Canada and $1.8 million in guns from Victoria, British Columbia-based M.D. Charlton, out of 21 weapons suppliers listed in the reports.

The top-two vendors accounted for more sales than all the other contractors combined.

The reports also showed that the RCMP bought $7.9 million of munitions and ammunition, almost all of which was supplied by the Canadian subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp. of the U.S.

RCMP’s Suppliers of Weapons, Including Parts, in 2016 (Contracts > $10,000)

Rank	Name	Amount ($)
1	Colt Canada	2,683,866
2	M.D. Charlton	1,814,859
3	Smith & Wesson	1,049,235
4	Rampart International	576,514
5	Summit Canada	552,380
6	Mega-Tech	436,717
7	Korth Group	383,823
8	Wolverine Supplies	364,841
9	Gravel Agency	268,158
10	Calgary Shooting Centre	200,713
11	Questar International	71,102
12	911 Supply	63,090
13	C&R Developments	45,862
14	Production Case	38,724
15	Millbrook Tactical	35,962
16	Valley Associates	33,452
17	GP Tactical	20,997
18	Custom Hardware Distributors	20,684
19	Acklands-Grainger	17,157
20	Cubic Defense Applications	16,025
21	Tetragon-Tasse Distributors	13,113
	TOTAL	8,707,274

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