As Newfoundland Crime Rises in Canada, It’s Dropping in US

In the last handful of years, Canada has been on a rampage regarding gun control. It seems there’s nothing they won’t try to restrict, and it’s causing problems for a lot of people who have never done anything wrong.

Meanwhile, we’re seeing more guns in private hands than ever before, and it’s glorious.

Anti-gunners on both sides of the border were long convinced that what we’d see is crime dropping in Canada while it would increase in the United States.

We know, though, that crime has been going down here over the last few years, including a massive drop in 2025, but what about Canada?

Well, the CBC says that Newfoundland, at least, is seeing a rise.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer is seconded to the RCMP’s National Weapons Enforcement Support Team.

Ryall investigates firearms that come into the custody of the RNC — and lately, that’s been often.

“In the run of a week or the run of a month, I’m seeing more handguns now than I ever would have within the last couple of years that I’ve been in this position,” he said.

Ryall’s role is to support the work of investigators by finding out whatever he can about a firearm used in a crime or seized from a person or place.

Part of that is working with the Canadian National Firearms Tracing Centre (CNFTC) to track the weapon back to where it originated, in an effort to stop the flow of weapons both inside and outside of the country.

Data provided by the CNFTC shows it tracked a record-number of guns from the province last year, including 45 handguns and 245 long guns.

The majority of the weapons traced in 2024 were domestically sourced, meaning they originated within the country. Nearly the same number could not be conclusively traced. That same year, there were three guns identified as being smuggled into Canada.

Interestingly, this story started by talking about an incident where the RCMP said the gun originated in my home state of Georgia. Couldn’t be because they were trying to make a point that the evidence itself wouldn’t support, could it?

Nah, I’m sure it’s fine.

Anyway, so-called gun crime is still low in the area, to be sure, but it’s going up. That tracks with what we’ve seen out of other provinces in Canada, and runs contrary to what we were told was going to happen with Canada cracking down on guns while the Supreme Court overturned “may issue” permitting and other courts continue to restore gun rights throughout the nation.

To be clear, this is correlation, not causation. There’s not enough evidence to draw a firm conclusion that gun control is why “gun crime” is rising up that way. We’re not a valid control sample, for one thing, because there are too many other forces at work.

But causation should provide correlation. What I mean is that if gun control was going to reduce violent crime, why didn’t it?

The worst-case reading of this information for us is that gun control simply doesn’t do anything at all to stop so-called gun crime. That’s not really different from what we’ve been arguing anyway.

However, it also could well be true–and probably is, to be clear–that gun control actually caused this rise in violent crime as criminals now have less fear of being confronted and shot by an armed citizen.

I’d say I rest my case, but since the people who need to understand this aren’t that interested in doing so, I guess there’s no rest for any of us.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights in spite of all the evidence showing it’s a bad idea.

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