The police lose how many?!

So if you take the statistic here: there are 813 firearms lost by or stolen from police over the last 15 years.

That’s an average of 54 per year.

And if you look at the homicide statistics here: you’ll note that the total number of homicides from all rifles and all shotguns, plus all sawed-off rifles and all sawed-off shotguns is approximately the same number.

That’s right; we have bypassed parliament and debate, to ban some sporting rifles which *could* contribute to that combined total; even though police lose as many per year as ALL rifles and ALL shotgun homicides combined.

It is important to note, that most police officers have prohibited devices as well. They have standard capacity magazines in both their pistols and rifles. After the OIC, most of their rifles are prohibited. The RCMP issued handgun is prohibited. (The barrel length limit was chosen just a little bit longer than the most common barrel size to eliminate as many as possible without any compensation back in the 90s.)

Standard capacity on most modern, duty style pistols is approximately 12-20 cartridges for 9mm and .40S&W; in Canada, non-police are limited to 10.

Standard capacity for the “patrol carbines” – mostly the same rifles that were banned by the OIC (AR-15s mostly, but the Swiss Arms as well) varies; when it was introduced as a sporting rifle, they were sold with a 5 round magazine. Later, 10, 20, 30, 40 and beyond became popular/available. Today, the most common size is 30 rounds. In Canada, non-police are limited to 5 rounds. Those 30 round magazines are riveted to only accept 5.