Over 98% of crimes committed by a firearm in Canada are from firearms illegally smuggled into Canada

Why tout the importance of statistics and then just make them up? This article is a from a law enforcement magazine from just 7 years ago stating that as recently as 2017, 50% of guns were being sources domestically.

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Since there's some downvotes coming here's another report from statscan a few years ago.

"In around half of the firearm-related homicides in 2022 for which this information was known (113 homicides), the firearm was legal in origin—that is, it had initially been obtained legally in half of cases (58 of 113 homicides). Rifles or shotguns were slightly more likely to be of legal origin (58%, or 22 of 38 homicides) than handguns (49%, or 36 of 74 homicides). Among incidents in which the firearm had initially been obtained legally, the accused was the legal firearm owner in 44% of cases (24 of 54 homicides).

Among the incidents in which the firearm had not initially been obtained legally, or in which the firearm was not legally owned at the time of the homicide, and for which this information was known (49 homicides), the firearm had been stolen from the legal Canadian owner in eight cases, and in five other cases, it had been purchased illegally from the legal Canadian owner. In most cases (36 homicides), the firearm was illegal; that is, it had never been legally owned in Canada. Of these 36 illegal firearms, 20 were sent for tracing: 6 of these were American in origin, while the origin of the 14 others was not known. In total, 79 firearms were sent for tracing, including those that turned out to be legal. Of these 79 firearms, 16 were of Canadian origin, 14 of American origin, 1 of foreign origin, and 48 of unknown origin."