• RCMP look the other way over abandoned firearms in Fort Mac — manna to the gun lobby but a worry to the rest of us | rabble.ca
    http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2016/05/rcmp-look-other-way-over-abandoned-firearms-fort-mac-manna-to-gu

    the RCMP reported that as of Tuesday there have been at least 100 cases of forced entry into homes in Fort Mac. Many, of course, will turn out not to have involved criminal intent. Some will.
    We don’t know if any high-risk offenders remained in Fort McMurray. We do know at least one did in High River in 2013, where the RCMP seized 609 firearms from 105 homes, which is an interesting statistic in its own right.
    So it’s fairly shocking to learn that the RCMP — apparently unnerved by the campaign of vilification waged against them by a militant segment the province’s gun enthusiasts and their journalistic supporters after the Southern Alberta town of High River was flooded in 2013 — are not going into abandoned homes to ensure improperly stored firearms aren’t lying about in plain sight for the taking.
    Instead, presumably on someone’s orders, the RCMP have their blinders firmly in place and are apparently refusing to look for legal weapons abandoned in a manner that is likely to make them illegal weapons soon enough.

    #FortMcMoney