Two fully-loaded handguns (one in the photo) were seized by two sharp-eyed 22 Division officers during a traffic stop.
Police were patrolling the South Etobicoke area on September 8 when they observed a vehicle travelling with an improper licence plate.
“Our keen officers conducted a traffic stop which resulted in the arrest of two individuals with two fully-loaded handguns,” police say.
Police are warning “these guns are not toys.”
Police are warning “these guns are not toys.”
“They are serious weapons to hurt others,” according to officers. “These individuals have no reason to possess these firearms other than to hurt our community members.”
Police have stepped up patrols in the New Toronto following a Wild West shootout last weekend when some 80 shell casings were found in the vicinity of an afterhours booze club on Lakeshore Blvd. and Ninth St. area.
Police say a suspect was using a deadly machine pistol to fire rounds, which hit about a dozen vehicles and a gas line. One man was shot in the thigh area.
Police say a suspect was using a deadly machine pistol to fire rounds, which hit about a dozen vehicles and a gas line. One man was shot in the thigh area.