TheGunBlog.ca — All police should be allowed to carry guns on and off duty to boost personal and national security, according to a French parliamentary report yesterday. One of the authors is the former head of the national police SWAT team who was present at the Bataclan raid in Paris in November 2015.
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Officials Wrongly Count Crime Guns as Domestic, Toronto Sun Says
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian officials count guns seized from criminals as coming from within the country even when their origin is unknown, the Toronto Sun said, without saying where it got the information.
SWAT Team Use in Canada Is Up 2,100% Since 1980, Researchers Say
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian police have increased the use of SWAT teams by almost 2,100 percent since 1980 as the highly armed and trained units respond to routine calls, researchers said at The Conversation. They urged authorities to scale back deployments.
Canada’s Police Guns 2018: Blue Line Magazine Survey
Blue Line survey shows Glock now dominates the market for Canadian police handguns. Source: www.BlueLine.ca
TheGunBlog.ca — Glock GmbH dominates the market for Canadian police handguns and is attracting agencies faster than any other company, a survey by Blue Line magazine showed. Colt Canada Corp. supplies police with the most AR-15 rifles, and the most-popular police shotgun is the Remington 870.
RCMP Failed to Provide Guns, Training: Full Text of Court Ruling
TheGunBlog.ca — The following is the full text of a Sept. 29 court ruling that found the RCMP guilty of failing to provide AR-15 rifles and training to its officers, three of whom were shot to death in June 2014 in Moncton, New Brunswick. CBC, which provided live updates of the trial, reported last week on the judge’s decision here.
The 64-page ruling was sent to TheGunBlog.ca by the court. The bold was in the original.
Related: RCMP Trial This Week Focused on This Report Recommending AR-15
RCMP’s Top Gun Suppliers 2016: Colt Canada, M.D. Charlton, S&W
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.
Ontario Police Pick Glock 17M as Pistol to Start Service in 2018
The Ontario Provincial Police, Canada’s second-biggest police agency, picked the Glock 17M pistol in 9 mm to replace the SIG Sauer P229, becoming the country’s first major department to adopt the new handgun of the FBI.
Glock to Supply Ontario Police With Pistol to Replace SIG P229
Glock GmbH, which makes pistols used by 80 percent of police departments in Canada, won a contract to supply a new handgun to the Ontario Provincial Police, replacing the SIG Sauer P229 after almost a quarter century of use.
Verbatim: RCMP Said It Deleted Quebec Long-Gun Registry Records
Following are comments by the RCMP in 2015 and 2016 related to deleting registration records of Quebec residents from the so-called “Long-gun Registry.”
RCMP Kept Half of Long-Gun Registry Data, 2015 Transcript Shows
The RCMP kept almost half the data from Canada’s so-called “Long-gun Registry” that was stopped by law in 2012, a two-year-old official transcript shows. The law ordered all registration records destroyed.
More Than 90,000 Canadians Are Allowed to Carry Guns Every Day
(Update 06 May 2018: Updated chart and notes. 20 May 2017: Added new info under Additions.)
More than 90,000 Canadians are authorized to carry loaded guns on their person in daily life, mainly for self-defence against human attackers. More than 90 percent are civilian police and law enforcement, or military. If they were all on duty at the same time, it would be equivalent to about 3 people carrying guns for every 1,000 adults.
Police to Arrest Martial Artists for Combat Sport. Who’s Next?
The organizers of a Brazilian jiu-jitsu championship in Quebec said they cancelled the martial-arts event after police threatened to arrest participants for practicing an illegal combat sport.
SHOT Show 2017: Military/Police Range Day Report
Todd Hodnett (left), precision-shooting instructor, with Nicolas Johnson, editor of TheGunBlog.ca, at the SHOT Show 2017 range day for military and police.
Today’s SHOT Show range day for military and police was a blast.
No Selfies With Guns, Halifax Police Say. You Know What We Say?
The editor of TheGunBlog.ca with his first rifle, around age 10.
Police in Nova Scotia have invented a new crime: posting photos of yourself with guns or anything that looks like a gun.