вЂњWithout the importing of (handguns) there would be. The lucrative trade - a gun bought for $200 in Georgia or Michigan can sell for more than 10 times as much in Toronto - involves suppliers out for fast money and border mules hiding guns in gas tanks and behind dashboards, driving their smuggled weapons along Highway 401 to buyers, even renters, many of them kids. The Star scoured court cases on both sides of the border made applications before a judge for exhibits and attended gun shows interviewed pawnshop owners and police officers and obtained previously unreleased data that reveal a state-by-state breakdown of where Ontario crime guns originate in the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told the Star. It doesnвЂ™t matter if the thingвЂ™s 40 years old,вЂќ Special Agent Mark Jackson of the U.S. вЂњYou can get cheap handguns here in the States, and it doesnвЂ™t seem to matter to the end purchasers in Toronto what kind of guns they are. Waiting at the end of the supply chain, where comparatively strict Canadian laws make gun possession difficult, Toronto criminals desperate for firepower - for protection, status, intimidation or worse - are willing to pay top dollar for economy brands of semi-automatics, like the gun the Star bought. Over the coming weeks, a Toronto Star investigation will take you along the handgun pipeline, from stateside supplier to mule to end user, up Interstate 75 to the porous border to Toronto. No paper trail.Д¬heap American handguns are flooding Toronto streets.ДЄt least 70 per cent of all guns used in Toronto crimes are smuggled from the U.S., mostly from states with lax gun purchase laws that make it easy to buy a pistol in a pawnshop, at a gun show or in a parking lot. No background check, no identification asked for and none shown, even though federal law requires proof of state residency, such as a driverвЂ™s licence, for a private sale. Bob described it as a вЂњpoor manвЂ™s James BondвЂќ gun.Д¬ash on delivery. 25-calibre German pistol, a Deutsche Werke that would sell for as much as $2,000 in Toronto. The reporters, posing as Canadians recently moved to Georgia, handed him $270 for a.

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