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Firearms
Illicit firearms are used by most criminal organizations to a certain extent. While the demand is continuous, it is tempered to some degree by the fact that firearms are a reusable commodity, unlike other contraband (such as illicit drugs) that involve a cyclical process of consumption and resupply.
The main sources of illicit firearms are domestic thefts or those smuggled into Canada from the U.S. It is difficult to attach numeric values to these two components as a means to quantify their scope and magnitude.
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