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.
@Cracks_InTheWalls it is deliberate. the media people who write about this topic refuse to educate themselves beyond a very superficial level, which enables more of the equivocal liberalism they are also doing. they are very much a part of the problem, as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. outlined in his letter from Birmingham jail. he said it is not the swastika-tattooed nazis nor the hood-wearing klansmen he feared the most, but the white “moderates” who enable them.
no one is immune to propaganda, so it’s always important to check and do your due dilligence to make sure you don’t fall for fascist nonsense. Canadian media isn’t any less full of it than any other. most of our news is owned by one or two companies, both of which are owned by fascists. there are as many unscrupulous cranks writing for the Ottawa Citizen and the Globe and Mail as there are writing for The SUN. 000000000000000