Murders Rarely Committed by Legal Firearm Owners: Statistics Canada

The Epoch Times ^ | 2/3/24 | Chandra Philip

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While the rate of homicides involving a firearm has increased in Canada, those crimes are not usually committed by people who have a licence for the weapon, according to a Statistics Canada report.

“The firearms used in homicides were rarely legal firearms used by their legal owners who were in good standing,” said the report, titled Firearms and Violent Crime in Canada 2022. Looking at data from 2022, the report found that around half of the firearm-related murders were carried out by those who had obtained the gun legally (58 out of 113 homicides).

“In most firearm-related homicides, the accused did not have a valid firearm licence for the class of firearm used” the report said.

“Among the homicides for which the information was available, the accused had a licence in 13 percent (16 of 119 homicides) of homicides involving a handgun and in 12 percent (7 of 59) of homicides involving a rifle or shotgun.”

In the cases where an illegally obtained weapon was used, most had never been “legally owned” in Canada, StatCan said.

[CFW]

This article pertains to Canada, but the facts hold true for the U.S. as well.

[PROCON]

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There are legal firearms in Canada?

Who knew?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How pathetically obvious is that? Extremely, utterly, completely, totally, and obviously obvious.

[Candor7]

Meanwhile TRudeau has banned the sale of hand guns and semi automatic rifles . Some of the rifkes have been legally used byCabadians for over go years like the Lungman Swedish assault rifle M-42B.Ruger mini 14s are banned for use.So are AR-15 semi autos.

TRudeau wants to ban semi auto rifles while issuing fully automatic rifles to the police.

Trudeau disallows permits to carry through his firearns officrs in each province when the Criminal Code allows carry when life is threatened.Trudeau accomplishes this via executive order.

The law abiding gun owners of Canada hate Trudeau.THey never vote for him.

TRudeau will not even allow off duty police officers to carry side arms.The gangs in the cities love that.

TRudeau and his liberal fascist running dog ideologues need to go.We need a Prime Minister who is not such a pansy, bed wetting, hand wringing lap dog of Davos.Trudeau is Canada’s foremost Village Idiot.

[Paal Gulli]

In the 90 years since the passing of the 1934 National Firearms Act (which was when the federal government ceded itself the power to control fully-automatic firearms), there have been exactly 2 (two) murders committed with a lawfully-owned machine gun.

[bobbo666]

Yeah. Wonder what kind of a nimrod you’d have to be to even be confused on that.

If you have an illegal gun, you are already a criminal. So, offing someone is not as much of a leap.
Like invading a country.