In TORONTO story headlined "Canada, U.S. police seize 1,700 rifles,
ammunition," please read in second paragraph ...including three machine
guns and 1,709 M1 Garand rifles... (fixes name of rifles)
By Frank Pingue
TORONTO, May 2 (Reuters) - More than 1,700 military rifles and
ammunition for them have been seized by Canadian and U.S. police in
one of the largest cross-border weapons smuggling cases ever exposed,
Toronto police said on Tuesday.
Police said the weapons, including three machine guns and 1,709 M1
Garand Rifles, were similar to those used by the U.S. military forces in
World War Two and in the Korean War. All are believed to be in good working
order.
Police also confiscated 39 illegal high-capacity M1 magazine cartridges,
100 M1 Grand Barrels and 21,139 receivers for the rifles in separate searches
in Toronto, Montreal and Reno, Nevada.
Police said Paul Gardner of Kingston, Tennessee, and Jerome June, of
Rochester, New York, were arrested in connection with the case and face
charges of possession of restricted weapons. They were both released from
custody and will appear in a Canadian court on Thursday.
A third suspect was still being sought.
Toronto police spokesman Sergeant Frederick Ellarby said the weapons
would probably be destroyed.
"The guns will probably be destroyed but it is all up to the courts,"
he told Reuters.
The arrests follow a year-long investigation by the Ontario Provincial
Weapons Enforcement Unit, the Toronto Police Firearms Office, the U.S. Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Canadian and the U.S. customs services.
Police refused to comment on why the guns were being smuggled.
Toronto Police Superintendent Ron Taverner of the Special Investigation
Services, is expected to release more details about the case at a news
conference later on Tuesday.
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But they didn't fix the name of the barrels<G>.
Steve.
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