Toronto Police Association President Clayton Campbell says the federal gun buyback program won’t bring down crime in Toronto since most firearm offences involve illegal firearms.
“The gun buyback program is going to have zero impact on the crime we’re seeing in the city of Toronto,” Campbell told MPs at a Sept. 25 House of Commons justice committee meeting on the bail system, sentencing, and the handling of repeat violent offenders in Canada.
Campbell noted that most firearm offences in Toronto relate to “a small number of gang members, thugs, using illegal firearms.” He said 90 percent of the 700 illegal firearms Toronto Police Service seized last year came from the United States….