So remember when Toronto police chief Mark Saunders said that 50% of guns used in crimes come from legal owners in Canada?
Some guy filed an FOI with the Toronto Police to obtain their statistics on the situation.
https://dennisryoung.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Toronto-Police-FOIP-Crime-Gun-Stats-2007-2017-Aug-24-2018.pdfIt turns out that their own statistics say that in 2017, of 726 crime guns seized by police, 148 were identified as "domestically sourced". That's 20%, not 50%.
Also, while Saunders claimed that this is on the rise, it's actually the opposite. In 2016, 124 of 516 (24%) of crime guns were identified as domestically sourced. In 2015, it was 152 of 566 (26%) that were domestically sourced.
My question is, was Mark Saunders deliberately lying for political reasons, or is Mark Saunders just too dumb to read his own department's statistics properly?
-k
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