JUSTICE CANADA: Firearms, Accidental Deaths, Suicides and Violent Crime: An Updated Review

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Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 3:27 pm
From: "Dennis R. Young"
Subject: JUSTICE CANADA: Firearms, Accidental Deaths, Suicides and ...

...Violent Crime: An Updated Review


JUSTICE CANADA - APRIL 30, 2013
Firearms, Accidental Deaths, Suicides and Violent Crime: An Updated Review
of the Literature with Special Reference to the Canadian Situation
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/wd98_4-dt98_4/p9.html

TABLE OF CONTENTS

9. Illegal Access to Firearms
9.1 The Need to Curtail the Illegal Firearms Market
9.2 Sources of Illegal Firearms
9.3 Stolen Firearms
9.4 Firearm Smuggling
9.5 Links Between Drugs and Firearms Trafficking
9.6 Summary
. Measures to control and regulate the legal firearms market should be
accompanied by equally vigorous measures to control the illicit firearms
market.
. There is a growing number of U.S. studies examining the relative ease with
which criminals can acquire firearms, the ways these firearms are obtained,
and how they are used by offenders. The findings of these studies cannot be
applied directly to Canada; equivalent Canadian studies do not exist.
. In 1996, there were 87,043 firearms reported lost, missing and stolen;
this includes firearms recorded as missing and not recovered since 1974.
. Limited information is known about stolen firearms in Canada, what happens
to them after they are stolen, how often they are recovered, or how often
they are used in crime.
. The large number of unregistered, restricted firearms recovered by police
indicate that firearms are being smuggled and illegally imported into
Canada. However, the true extent of the problem is unknown and cannot, at
present, be estimated.
. There is some evidence, at the international level, of increasing
transnational illicit transfers of firearms. However, there is not
systematic information on the nature and frequency of firearms trafficking
and smuggling activities.
. Illegal drug trafficking is linked to illegal firearms markets. To date,
there has been little research on the nature of these links, and on how the
two sets of activities are interconnected.

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