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The Trudeau government might be promising to crack down on civilian guns owners with increased paperwork and tougher storage laws, but it turns out the feds can’t even keep track of their own guns.
An audit of firearms under the control of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which includes the Coast Guard, found record keeping and safe storage were lax at times.
The audit found that some firearms were missing trigger locks while others were not secured properly to allow tracking of who was accessing and using them.
It’s all pretty rich when you consider that the Trudeau government’s answer to gang gun violence is to demand licenced gun owners follow even more rules.
“Firearms inventory information is not always accurate and complete,” reads the audit released last December.
If that were a civilian gun owner, or a gun store, there would be the real possibility of jail time.
“The audit found that 410 out of 1,908 active firearms (21%) were not recorded as required by Departmental policy,” the audit states.
“These 410 firearms were, however, accounted for in other systems, databases, and spreadsheets.”
Alright… so in one government department they aren’t storing their guns properly, they aren’t always using trigger locks as per regulation and they don’t always know where their guns are.
It can’t get worse than that, can it?
Yes it can.
Seems they can’t get rid of unwanted firearms properly, either.
The government has rules around how a gun must be disposed of, or “retired.”
The audit found records concerning 120 guns that had been “retired,” but not all had paperwork.
“For approximately half of these retired firearms, the audit did not find documentation to confirm their transfer or disposal as required by the regulations,” the audit states.
So 60 guns were supposedly disposed of but no records exist of when or how?
Again, that would not be acceptable for civilians — it can’t be acceptable for a government department.
The simple fact is, these 60 government guns could have been diverted into the black market and be on our streets now — something the audit alludes
“Given the nature of firearms as a high-risk asset and controlled good, the Department should consistently document the transfer or disposal of retired firearms, as required by the Public Agents Firearms Regulations, to ensure the Department no longer bares responsibility or liability for the ownership and control of these assets,” the audit states.
I’ve previously reported on the RCMP, the military and other government agencies losing guns.
Researcher Dennis Young discovered through access to information documents that between 2005 and 2019, 640 firearms were reported lost and 173 were reported stolen by the government.
We know that when it comes to gun violence in Canada the main problem is the border.
Handguns and illegal rifles are smuggled across and sold at huge markups on the black market.
The government’s answer to this is to regulate those already following the law — often pointing to a few isolated incidents of bad apples.
Before Justin Trudeau, Bill Blair and the rest of the government in Ottawa try to add further regulations to licenced gun owners, they might want to clean up their own acts.
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