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The Canada Border Services announced one of the largest single firearm seizures in the Southern Ontario Region in recent history, with the seizure of 56 prohibited firearms and the arrest of a Florida woman.
https://london.ctvnews.ca/cbsa-arres...gion-1.5673455
It will be interesting how this plays out in the courts…
She'll get bail with a promise she'll return to Canada for trial...:)
Probably out already. Gangbangers will have to use slingshots for a week or so.
She was either one cool customer trying to smuggle guns virtually in the open or she was dumber than a bag of hammers.
They were busy with her, officers watching the car, documenting, pictures etc. ... I wouldn't be surprised if 5 more cars/trucks with 50 + each went through. If it is a gang smuggling it do you think they would put all their eggs in one basket?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherman
Boy - how stupid can you get - if you want to smuggle guns into Canada you don't put them in the trunk of your car - you take the floor out of you boat and put the guns inside the flotation blocks - or something like that - not out in the open - takes all kind I guess -
You're not wrong with this. CBSA scoops the decoy unit with 50 guns while 500 get across under the radar. It's not a new concept.Quote:
Originally Posted by mosquito
Yeah they all don't get caught this was just a shipment they got the rest slipped them.
Still a good bust may of saved a life .
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They do not look prohibited, restricted but not prohibited, unless the are all 4in barrel guns.
A lot of them look like 4" or under and they probably all have U.S. legal cap mags that are prohibited here. Should say legal in most states. Some since Sandy Hook are now much less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
Magazine capacity is independent of the firearm in Canada, 10rd mags for pistols are perfectly legal in Canada, they stated that they had 10rd mags and some over capacity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stu
Not sure how you can tell the barrel length from this photo, there only looks to be 1 or two that are obviously prohibited in Canada.
I under stand that mag capacity is independent of the firearm, as do you, but a good portion of the media reporting on this probably don't and probably don't care if they do know and neither do most of the public that they are reporting this to. To them it's just added hype to their story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
I can't tell exactly from the photo the barrel length of all of the guns. I am basing my guess on this from 37 years experience selling firearms where I got to handle a lot of this type of firearm. I didn't say that all were short but it is obvious to me that there are a good number of them are, based on the size of the frame compared to barrel length. It appears that a number of them are compact frames which quite often have short barrels.
I'm not trying to be smart or start something here. Just made an observance. I know that you are quite knowledgeable about firearms and legalities.
I agree with you on the media, it would not really matter if they were all legal handguns for barrel length or not, they would all be called prohibited by the news organization anyway. Sorry about the magazine capacity thing, lots of people are not in the know, hell, one guy told me I could not use a lee enfield with 10rd mag because it needed to be limited to 5 rounds in his mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stu
The worst part is when the media says "thousands of rounds of ammunition", like please use some context. Thousands of rounds of 50 BMG, ok, that is a lot, thousands of rounds of 22LR or 9mm is a weekend of fun, ha ha ha.