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The following is a list of firearms used by police forces in Canada. The vast majority of firearms used by Canadian police are semi-automatic. Beretta Px4 Storm. Glock 17 Gen4 pistol. Heckler & Koch P2000. Smith & Wesson Model 5906.
Regulation is largely about licensing and registration of firearms, including air guns with a muzzle velocity of more than 500 ft/s or 150 m/s and muzzle energy greater than 4.2 ft⋅lb or 5.7 J. [ 1 ] Handgun registration became law in 1934, and automatic firearms registration was added in 1951. In 1969, laws classified firearms as "non ...
In Oct. 2022, contract awarded for additional P320s to replace the Hi-Power as the general service pistol for the Canadian Armed Forces. Delivery completed in March 2024 of 16,500 new C22 pistols for the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force, and 3,200 more compact C24 pistols for the Military Police Group. [60] [54] [61]
20 or 30 rounds made by Rhodesia (9mm) [1] 10 rounds (.40 S&W) The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, semi-automatic pistol available in the 9×19mm Parabellum and .40 S&W calibers. It was based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at FN Herstal. Browning died in 1926, several years ...
Many of the firearms on this list are military weapons which were used during both World Wars, so it is unsurprising that they were manufactured in such high numbers. Others are designed for civilian hunting and sport shooting, which generally sell very well in countries such as the U.S. and Canada. Many of those produced have been destroyed ...
Map showing the westwards expansion of Canada in 1870. The NWMP was created due to the expansion of the newly formed Dominion of Canada into the NWT during the 1870s. [5] The Dominion had been formed in 1867 by the confederation of the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but the extensive lands to the north-west known as Rupert's Land remained governed by the Hudson's ...
South Edmonton Common. South Edmonton Common is one of Canada's largest retail power centres, [2] and when it will be completely developed, it will spread over 320 acres (130 ha) and contain some 2,300,000 square feet (210,000 m 2) of retail space, making it one of the largest open-air retail developments in North America. [2]
The old highway Ermine Street passed through what is today Edmonton. Ermine Street was the main Roman road from London to Lincoln and on to York. Edmonton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is recorded as Adelmetone—'a farmstead or estate of a man called Ēadhelm' from an Old English personal name and tūn. [2]