Illegal guns enter Cda from U.S. but police, politicians don't know extent

By Steve Mertl, THE CANADIAN PRESS A gun showing locations for marking and tracing is shown in a handout photo. Photo is for use as desired with a package of stories on gun smuggling over the Canada-U.S. border and the deadly consequences on Canadian streets. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Ontario Ministry of Attorney General VANCOUVER - It was almost 5 a.m. when a suburban Vancouver police officer nearing the end of his shift watched a car's uncertain journey down a street a few kilometres north of the Canada-U.S. border. "He wasn't certain that perhaps we've got an impaired driver, somebody who is lost...," Const. Sharlene Brooks, spokeswoman for police in Delta, says of the routine traffic stop last Sept. 27. Instead, a search of the vehicle, triggered by the occupants' suspicious behaviour, turned up several gym bags filled with... [read full story]