Police authorities have told me—for example, the police in Surrey, British Columbia, and the police in Toronto—they would have said three to five years ago that the major source was smuggling operations coming in from the United States. However, they believe the nature of the source has changed, so that there is less smuggling in from the United States and more domestic sourcing of illegal weapons through, for example, break-ins in which perfectly legal guns are stolen and put into the black market in Canada.
The police have said—