ICYMI ~ Drone Smuggling of Handguns to Canada

AmmoLand ^ | July 2, 2022 | Dean Weingarten

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On Friday, April 29, 2022, the Lambton branch of the Ontario Provincial Police seized a drone that had become stuck in the branches of a tree in the Canadian neighborhood. The payload of the drone was eleven handguns.

From torontoctvnews.com:

On Friday morning, Lambton OPP, with the help of the St. Clair Township Fire Department, used a bucket truck to retrieve a large drone from a tree located on the bank of the St. Clair River attached was a bag containing 11 handguns.

The tree was on a property belonging to Christine and Jeremy Ackwood.

“Our neighbour had spotted someone in our yard in the middle of the night and he had a remote control,” Christine explained. “He wasn’t sure what was going on.”

That’s when things got very interesting. The stranger in the yard was spooked by Ackwood’s neighbour, and that’s when the stranger lost control of the drone and it crashed into the large trees in the Ackwood’s backyard.

Link to video from torontocvtvnews

One of 11 handguns from the drone smuggling. Note removed serial numbers.

The one handgun displayed by the police appears to be a sub-compact Glock with the serial numbers removed. It is one of tens (perhaps hundreds) of millions of guns in the United States which are unregistered and untraceable.

Millions of guns are not registered by design, to prevent the establishment of a national gun registry in the United States.

Port Lambton is on the St. Clair river, which is the boundary between Canada and the United States, 20 miles northeast of Detroit. The river, at this point, is less than half a mile wide.

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The US Canada border is the longest in the world between two countries. Most of it is unguarded and wide open wilderness. I suppose the wilderness to some extent is a barrier.