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Rosco (Roger_Walker@CUEHere.Edmonton.AB.CA) writes:
> In article <damboisc.818529361@alize.ERE.UMontreal.CA> D'Amboise Charles 
> (damboisc@ERE.UMontreal.CA) wrote:
> 
>> Of all the crimes made with guns in Canada, 50% are made with legal guns 
>> which do not come from the black market. (fact)
> 
> The OPP recently had an exercise (Operation Gunrunner) where they identified
> firearms used in crime. I believe they found that 85% or more were of the
> illegal type.

The debate over the availability of illegal guns is a common one among gun
supporters, but it is really a red herring. For starters, people have to
go to some effort to obtain an illegal weapon, which restricts the number
of people who will bother to go this route. Secondly, there are so many
illegal weapons because the gun control laws in the US are virtually
non-existant. If the US enacted tougher legislation similar to Canada (a
person can dream, can't he?), the supply of illegal guns would be cut
dramatically. It's not too hard to travel to the US, buy a gun, and slip
it into your suitcase to drive back across the border. 
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