OTTAWA – Gabriel Wortman, the Nova Scotia man who murdered 22 people in April, was heavily armed with two semi-automatic rifles, two pistols and special ammunition boxes designed to carry extra bullets when he began his rampage.
Newly obtained documents also reveal all of the weapons were illegally obtained, three of them smuggled across the U.S. border.
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The details are contained in a briefing note given to the prime minister just days after the shooting.
The note reveals the full horror of Wortman’s shooting spree which went on for 13 hours, across a wide swath of northern Nova Scotia, ending when he was shot and killed by an RCMP officer at a gas station. Wortman impersonated a RCMP officer throughout the evening, driving in a replica RCMP cruiser and wearing a police uniform.
In addition to weapons they believe he used, Wortman was found with the service pistol of RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson who he killed in an earlier shootout.
Teewster on November 20th, 2020 at 16:19 UTC »
If they knew he had legally acquired those firearms, they would've disclosed it immediately.
sleipnir45 on November 20th, 2020 at 13:11 UTC »
" The briefing note to the prime minister, obtained through access to information, shows Wortman had a “Colt Law Enforcement Carbine,” a semi-automatic weapon similar to the rifles issued to RCMP officers. "
Many had guessed this before, he wanted to be as authentic RCMP as he could.
" three of the weapons Wortman used, the two pistols and the Colt carbine, were restricted firearms at the time of the shooting and depending on the specific characteristics of the weapons they might have been banned entirely in Canada. "
The PM and Mr.Blair knew this days after the shooting, yet they chose to keep this information from the public so they could promote their May 1st hunting and sporting rifle ban.
This ban wouldn't of stopped this shooting.
Edit: Here's Bill Blair Lying saying this ban would've helped.
https://www.facebook.com/594464695/videos/10158760746949696/
RetroReactiveRaucous on November 20th, 2020 at 13:02 UTC »
The way this was initially covered pissed me off a bit. The man had a criminal record as old as I am preventing him from legally obtaining firearms, but somehow this was seen as a failure on the Canadian system to legally obtain guns.