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Originally Posted by Windsweptcoast
How many handguns are stolen in this country from properly licensed owners and how many of the stolen handguns are then used for armed robberies and other gun violence? Let’s face it a handgun ban would at least reduce this problem.
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So do you have answer to those questions or are you just assuming that it is a problem? The fact is that there is no reliable source of data on this
https://thegunblog.ca/2018/09/15/mor...rent-firearms/
https://justiceforgunowners.ca/do-cr...m-pal-holders/
https://dennisryoung.ca/2018/08/30/t...ats-2007-2017/
And I love this one... our tax dollars at work
https://dennisryoung.ca/2018/02/16/r...irearms-trace/
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1. The RCMP report they do not know how much the program costs because they don’t have an individual budget for the Canadian National Firearms Tracing Centre (CNFTC).
2. The RCMP report they do not know the number of successful firearms traces for any of the last ten years.
3. The RCMP report they do not know the number of registered firearms they have traced.
4. The RCMP report they do not know the number of unregistered firearms they have traced.
5. The RCMP report they do not know the number of firearms traced to the United States but never imported and sold legally in Canada (i.e. smuggled firearms).
6. The RCMP report they do not know the number of stolen firearms identified in their traces.
7. The RCMP report they do not know the number of times firearms traces resulted in the registered owner of the stolen firearm was charged with a crime.
8. The RCMP report they do not know the number of persons charged with the theft of the stolen firearms identified by the traces.
9. The RCMP report they do not know the number of stolen firearms that were returned to their registered owner as a result of the traces.
10. The RCMP report they do not know the number of crimes that were solved because the traces gave "police a valuable starting point for their investigation.”
11. The RCMP report they do not know the number of firearms prohibition orders enforced using firearms traces.
12. The RCMP report they do not know the number of registered firearms seized as a result of the enforcement of these court orders using firearms traces; and finally,
13. The RCMP report they do not know the number of unregistered firearms seized as a result of the enforcement of these court orders using firearms traces.
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