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Police are seizing a record number of firearms within Canada and at the border

Experts differ on the extent to which seizures contribute to gun violence reduction

Xavier Richer Vis

28 Feb 2023 5 min read

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Seized firearms are displayed during an RCMP and Crime Stoppers news conference at RCMP headquarters in Surrey, B.C. in 2021. (The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck)

Xavier Richer Vis
Xavier Richer Vis

Xavier is a Toronto-based journalist and a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London’s master’s in digital journalism. He first joined the IJF as a data-scraping volunteer. His work has appeared in Wired.

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