Usually, when the media talks about some bad guy’s “arsenal,” we get ready to laugh. While it’s the technically correct term—which just means a collection of weapons, regardless of size—it’s still funny to use it to describe some dude with a shotgun and a single box of shells. Every now and then, though, we see an example where the term has us all going, “Yep. That’s an arsenal, all right.”
I think the term applies to former Canadian MP Inky Mark. Yes, that’s his real name.
Anyway, it seems the Canadian authorities arrested Mark for gun trafficking, and I’ve just got to say that I’m impressed.
Ex-Canadian MP Inky Mark has been arrested after police found a trove of guns, ammunition and an antique cannon along with thousands of dollars in cash in his home.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized 439 firearms from his house near Dauphin, Manitoba, last week during a firearms trafficking probe. At least three of the guns were illegally trafficked, RCMP said.
Mark, 78, has been charged with firearms trafficking and several other gun-related offences, including possessing unauthorised devices and unsafe storage, which officials say threaten public safety.
Manitoba follows Canada’s strict federal gun control laws, but its provincial government actively opposes extra restrictions.
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The investigation began in March when police were notified of firearms charges in the US against another Dauphin-area man.
That investigation led RCMP to find and seize firearms allegedly purchased by Mark, which police said were “never lawfully transferred”.
The other man whose arrest prompted this investigation was 73-year-old Wilfred Kachurowski.
So, it seems Canadian authorities are more worried about dudes in their 70s than the criminals that are terrorizing Toronto. Sure. That makes sense…if you’re a moron.
While most of Mark’s guns were legally obtained, it’s unclear just what the three guns he’s charged with “trafficking” actually are or how they were trafficked. Did he simply buy them from someone that he believed lawfully owned them, or what?
As for the “antique cannon,” let me just say that I can’t say for certain that I didn’t crew that gun at Civil War reenactments when I was in high school. It’s a muzzle-loaded artillery piece like what you can order online here in the US and have delivered to your house. Additionally, many of the guns are clearly muzzleloaders, with at least one appearing to be a reproduction of a model that would be contemporary with the cannon.
Maybe Mark thinks the Civil War era is cool? I honestly don’t know.
What I do know, though, is that the man is charged with not storing 439 firearms “properly,” but I’ll be damned if I can think of a gun safe that will hold that many firearms at a semi-reasonable price.
On the other hand, I have a new life goal: To get a gun safe that holds 439 guns and to fill it until the door won’t shut.
Mostly, I think most of these charges are absolute nonsense, though if the trafficking thing was really a case of knowingly obtaining stolen guns, that’ll change for me. The rest of it definitely is stupid.
Until I have more reason to doubt Mark, I’m going to officially declare him the most based member of the Canadian Parliament in this century.
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