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Canadian Firearm Info -- Data Sheet


This is a collection of data figures on Canadian firearms and related information from various documents and sources. Links to sources are provided if  available.

Firearms Act Costs 
Firearms in Canada

Firearm Owners in Canada
Homicide in Canada
Violent Crime Involving Firearms
Pages in various documents

GarryBreitkreuz.com
Firearm Quick Facts

Last Update: Sept 2002
Firearms Act Costs: Over $978,260,000
  • Total Admitted Spent and Estimated to 2004-05:  $978,260,000
GarryBreitkreuz.com -- Government Admits to Cost
  •  Total Admitted Costs: >$650 Million (1995-2001)
Access to Information request 
  • 2000-2001 year cost: $357,336,429 
GarryBreitkreuz.com -- Letter to Auditor General
  • $$$ Hidden Costs
Access To Information request. Additional 137 Pages of costs concealed by "Cabinet Secrecy"
  • Original cost estimate over 5 years: $85 Million
Allan Rock, House of Commons (Hansard) 1995 ?

Firearms in Canada: 6-22 Million

  • 10 million firearms (1974)
  • almost 250,000 per year increase

Calculation: 1974 to 1998 (24 years) 24 x 250,000 = 6 million
10 million + 6 million = 16 million firearms (by 1998)

1976 Dept of Justice "Peace and Security: Protection against Violent crime – Explanatory Notes Gun Control"
  • 18 million firearms (1976)
  • Average yearly net importation (imports minus exports): 190,000

Calculation: 1976 to 1998 (22 years) 22 x 190,000 = 4,180,000.
18 million + 4 Million = 22 Million firearms (by 1998)

Solicitor General of Canada, Warren Allmond. 1976
  • 6 million firearms (1991)

Figure estimated from number of owners (see below)

Firearms Ownership in Canada, Angus Reid Group Inc., March 1991  -- Phone survey commissioned by Justice Department, 2341 households

Firearm Owners in Canada: 3-7 Million

  • Over 7 million firearm owners, 26% of Canadians (1992)
UN Survey, Campbell/Blais, 1992

Understanding Crime: Experiences in Crime and Crime Control, (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Publication No.49, Aug.1993), pp.292-293, p.325

  • 3 million firearm owners (1991)
Firearms Ownership in Canada, Angus Reid Group Inc., March 1991  -- Phone survey commissioned by Justice Department, 2341 households
  • 2.4 Million (2000)
Phone survey (2000) CFC

Homicide in Canada for year 2001 {1999} [1998] (1997)

Homicide Total: 554 = 100% 
{536} [555] (586) 
Homicides with knives:  31%  
{145} [184] (168) 
Homicides with guns: 171 = 31%
{165} [151] (193)

Firearms account for 31% of all homicide in 2001
Non-Gun Homicide  69%

The following percentages are for firearm total only:
Handguns: 110 = 65% 
{89} [70] (99) 
Rifles/Shotguns: 46 = 27% 
{58} [51] (77)
Sawed-off Rifles/Shotguns [prohibited]:  7 = 4% 
{6} [14] (10)
Full-auto firearms [prohibited]: 3 = 2% 
{6} [12] (2) 
Other firearms [air guns?]:  5 = 3%
{6} [4] (5)

Percentages shown are for 2001 only. 
Numbers in brackets are totals from previous years
 {1999} [1998] (1997)

Juristat: Homicide in Canada, 2001
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/020925/d020925b.htm

Juristat: Homicide in Canada, 1999
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/001018/d001018b.htm

Juristat: Homicide in Canada, 1998, vol. 19, no. 10
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/991007/d991007b.htm

Violent Crime Involving Firearms: 0.08%

Percentage of violent crime involving firearms: 0.08% (RCMP) 73 incidents (1993)

Total number of violent crimes 88,162

1993 stats. RCMP Commissioner Murray, 1997 July 21, Letter to Justice Dept

Pages in various documents

  • Pages in the Firearms Act (Statutes of Canada 1995, Chapter 39): 137
  • Pages in the Firearms Act Regulations: 142 English + 143 French
  • Pages in the Firearms Officers Desk manual: 1000+
  • Pages in the 1999 Alberta Supreme Court Ruling: 260
  • Pages in the Firearms Act "Guide" (simplified): 54 English + 63 French
  • Pages in 1999 Ottawa Phonebook White Pages: 1315
  • Pages in the NFA’s Practical Firearms Control System: 24

The above information is believed to be accurate Refer to cited sources to confirm.

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