26 April 2020

I'm beginning to understand...

...why the RCMP is being so cagey about releasing information on Nova Scotia shooter...insert alt text hereWhy won't the RCMP definitively state whether Gabriel Wortman had a current, valid RPAL?
The killer’s father, who also described being “beaten” by his son during a vacation in Cuba, told Frank his son had a “helluva a gun collection” and if the RCMP had obtained a “search warrant” he wonders if this could have been averted.
Apparently, you can escape police scrutiny simply by not applying for a firearms licence...
"Between this claimed death threat, the described weapons, the earlier conditional discharge for an assault on a 15-year-old boy and the alleged assault on his father, there were potential red flags that may have slipped between the justice system’s cracks."
Note that when I applied to renew my RPAL recently, the RCMP sent a separate letter to Mrs Neo enquiring if I had done anything to merit further scrutiny.

Gabriel Wortman got his "presumption of innocence." What about all the legal, registered owners of firearms in Canada?