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NEWS
RELEASE
| January
10, 2006 |
For Immediate Release |
NUMBER
OF LEGAL GUNS STOLEN IS NO MORE THAN 16% - NOT 48%
“It’s time to make criminals pay a heavy price for stealing
guns,” says Breitkreuz.
Yorkton
– Today, Garry Breitkreuz, MP for Yorkton-Melville,
released an academic analysis on the number of ‘crime guns’
stolen from law-abiding gun owners that brings into question claims
by the Mayor of Toronto and data recently released by the Toronto
Police Services. “According to Professor Mauser’s
analysis the number of legal firearms stolen from law-abiding gun
owners ranges between 2 and 16 percent - not 48 percent as claimed
by Mayor Miller and reported in the media,” revealed Breitkreuz.
Professor Gary
Mauser, Ph.D., of Simon Fraser University, reported the following
results based on his analysis of the following published data (see
link to his full report at the bottom of this page):
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1.
Toronto Police Services Board report dated January 22,
2004: 16 (9%) of the 183 firearms (11 registered
and 5 reported stolen) came from lawful Canadian owners.
2. Toronto Police Service report dated December
1, 2005: 35 (16%) of the 214 handguns were stolen
from law-abiding Canadian owners.
3. Peel Regional Police, Project Gun Runner report
dated December 21, 1994: 14% of firearms used in
crime in Toronto had been registered at some point in the past.
4. Toronto Police Services Annual Report for
2000: 2% of the firearms came from Canadian owners.
5. Statistics Canada Homicide Report for 2004:
16% of the firearms used in homicide were in the registry. |
But, criminals will steal guns from anyone and anywhere including
the police and the military. Professor Mauser noted in his
analysis that published reports typically do not identify the number
of firearms used in crime that were reported stolen from the police
and the military. However, thanks to the Access to Information
Act, a few numbers have been uncovered:
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• On July 4, 2002, an RCMP
report listed 409 firearms reported lost by or stolen from the
Canadian Forces including: 218 Lee Enfield Rifles, 17 Browning
9mm pistols, an FN Browning .50 calibre Heavy Machine Gun, an
AK47, an FN Browning Canadian C9 Service Light Machine Gun 5.56mm,
a Colt AR15A2 .223 calibre, etc.
• On September 3, 2003, the RCMP reported 16 handguns and
1 shotgun stolen, 2 handguns and 1 shotgun lost; and 88 more firearms
being traced by the RCMP armourers. |
Neither the RCMP
nor the Canadian Firearms Centre collects information on the number
of firearms stolen or missing from other police forces in Canada.
The police are not yet required to register their guns and the Department
of National Defence is totally exempt from the registration requirements
of the Firearms Act.
“Law-abiding
gun owners, who have had their homes and businesses invaded and their
safely stored firearms stolen, are victims of a crime wave instigated
by a decade of Liberal mollycoddling of violent criminals. Now, the
Liberals want to victimize these law-abiding citizens again by banning
their guns. It’s time to make criminals pay a heavy price for
stealing guns, and that’s exactly what a Conservative government
intends to do,” vowed Breitkreuz.
Professor
Mauser’s Analysis:
http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2006_new/45.doc
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