23 April 2020

Not much of a surprise that it took...

...thirteen and a half hours for cops to catch up with Gabriel Wortman.insert alt text hereApparently the government is still unable, or unwilling to access the federal firearms licensing computer system...
Chief Supt. Chris Leather said Wednesday that "we have a fairly good idea that, in Canada at least, he didn't have a firearms acquisition certificate."
Wait, what... you don't know? How is that possible?
It remains unclear whether the killer was ever, in the past, granted a licence by the federal firearms licensing body operated by the RCMP.
That really doesn't seem like an especially useful database.

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