Drug Bust in Ryan Reynolds’s Hometown Raises Questions About Canadian Gun Laws

On Wednesday, I wrote about how the mayor of Montreal jumped immediately to call for gun control after a maniac killed a police officer and kicked off an incident that resulted in three deaths. It wasn’t surprising, of course, but it’s still sad.

We all know that gun control doesn’t do what proponents claim.

After all, Canada has a ban on so-called assault weapons now, and they have a freeze on handgun transfers. They also, in a somewhat unrelated field, also have strict laws about methamphetamine.

In Regina, which is the hometown of Ryan Reynolds and probably has nothing else going for it, a drug bust should raise a lot of questions. After all, like so many drug busts, guns were also part of the equation.

A 43-year-old man faces a long list of charges after Regina police say they seized significant quantities of drugs and multiple guns.

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A news release issued by the Regina Police Service (RPS) indicates the charges come after a two-month investigation led to the arrest of a man said to be from Regina.

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Officers from the RPS Drug Unit, along with help from the Tactical Support Unit, arrested the man outside a building on the 3200 block of Arens Road on June 18, the release states.

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Subsequent searches of a residence and two vehicles are said to have netted: 4.2 kilograms of methamphetamine, approximately 0.5 kg of fentanyl and a small amount of cocaine.

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The release states the rough street value of the drugs is $115,000.

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Police also seized $7,795 in cash as well as more guns and ammunition, among other things.

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A search of the man is said by police to have revealed a loaded handgun, a knife and brass knuckles.

Let’s take a look at those guns, shall we?

Let’s see what we have here. We’ve got three handguns, including a Glock with what looks like an auto-sear on the back, what looks to me like a Sig P320 or P365 (though I wouldn’t swear to that one), and I’m not entirely sure about what’s on top. We’ve got a pump-action shotgun, what looks like a broken air rifle to me, an underfolder AK, and a bufferless AR pistol that’s probably in 9mm.

Those last two are most definitely banned in Canada; the auto-sear is definitely banned, too. Let’s not even talk about that drum magazine, either, or the other “high-capacity magazines” on the table. All of those are illegal there, after all.

Of course, so is the meth. Clearly, that didn’t stop them.

Look, not everyone who buys or sells drugs is walking around armed. Even your street-level dealers may be unarmed. However, the more drugs you have, the more guns you need. Like Glen Frey said back in the ’80s:

No matter if it’s heroin, cocaine or hash
You’ve got to carry weapons ’cause you always carry cash.

By now, we should understand this. 

Still, Canada insists on gun control that would disarm an untold number of law-abiding citizens, but clearly had no impact whatsoever on Regina drug dealers. It would be beyond weird for it to have an impact on drug dealers anywhere else.

Especially when you’re sitting on product worth as much as half a million in Canadian dollars.

You can ban the guns, but you banned the drugs, and that didn’t work. They’re going to get the guns anyway, just like they got the meth, the cocaine, the heroin, and everything else that makes so many cities in the world not worth visiting.

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.

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