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8 MILLION GUNS IMPORTED BETWEEN 1945-2000 – CSSA
“If we use a base import $ value of about $42 per gun, applied to import $ value between 1945 and 1962 (extrapolated from the period between 1962 and 1971 when import values and quantities were extremely stable), then I calculate that about 7.9 million guns entered the country between 1945 and 2000. This does not include the amount added by domestic manufacturers, such as Cooey, who reportedly produced about six million guns between the 1920s and 1970s.
There were 1.95 million firearms registered by the RCMP at the end of 1945. Adding the non-military gun imports from 1945 to 2000 to this figure yields an estimate of approx. 9.9 million guns in civilian hands. This is probably conservative since noncompliance with registration in WWII appears to have been widespread.”
SOURCE: Al Smithies, Research Director, Canadian Shooting Sports Association, November 20, 2001
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