A former trucker from Florida has been sentenced to more than four years in U.S. prison after smuggling handguns into Canada that were later recovered at 10 crime scenes in Ontario and Quebec, and linked to two killings.

Court documents reviewed by CBC News provide a rare glimpse into a cross-border pipeline for crime guns.

The scheme saw U.S. firearms purchased legally, then transported up to 2,000 kilometres north to be re-sold to a Canadian trafficker for the retail price of the gun, plus a $1,000 fee for each weapon.

One of the weapons was found in Toronto after what police described as a "reckless" shootout in November 2024 that they said highlighted the "real and present danger" posed by illegal firearms.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We permit all manner of bullshit in society that actively harms millions of people in ways that handguns don't even come close. Yet you want to ban a sport because you don't like it. Costing billions of dollars over jackshit both in maintainence of the law and its failures in enforcement AND in lose tax revenue in sales, taxes, and licensing fees.

Let's continue to leave countless social problems untouched while insisting 'at least they can't buy a handgun from a gun store' which they haven't been able to do since well before many of us have even been born.

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, I do want to ban your phony “sport” and no amount of paragraphs are going to convince me otherwise. Take your shitty weapons down south if you want a right to them. You don’t have that in Canada.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your mentality is also part of the problem that will continue to fuck things up.

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Guns have almost no place in decent society. The list of people who need a gun is very small and your phony “sport” isn’t included. If that’s a problem with you, go to America. I hope they ban them all. Any argument to the contrary is an obscene affront to human life. Guns are made to kill. End of story.