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Police uncover arsenal. A police officer, right, trains his rifle on a Toronto man during a raid yesterday on an east-end home in which police encount(...)
Police uncover arsenal. A police officer, right, trains his rifle on a Toronto man during a raid yesterday on an east-end home in which police encount(...)

Police uncover arsenal. A police officer, right, trains his rifle on a Toronto man during a raid yesterday on an east-end home in which police encount(...)

Date11/16/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Police uncover arsenal. A police officer, right, trains his rifle on a Toronto man during a raid yesterday on an east-end home in which police encountered two guard dogs and steel-barred windows. More than 50 weapons, above, were seized, including an anti-tank rocket launcher, bayonets and grenades. Charges of unsafe storage of firearms and ammunition were laid.
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Apartment Arsenal, Metro police officers examine some of the 50 rifles, shotguns and handguns, along with ammunition and a crossbow, found in a one-be(...)
Apartment Arsenal, Metro police officers examine some of the 50 rifles, shotguns and handguns, along with ammunition and a crossbow, found in a one-be(...)
11/23/1992
Arsenal of Weapons which police say was captured in raid on Satan's Choice motorcycle club included whips, guns, knives, bicycle chains and baseball b(...)
Arsenal of Weapons which police say was captured in raid on Satan's Choice motorcycle club included whips, guns, knives, bicycle chains and baseball b(...)
9/25/1967
Gunman relents after 3-hour siege, Officers of the Metro police emergency Task Force, above, talk with a man armed with a rifle in his car yesterday n(...)
Gunman relents after 3-hour siege, Officers of the Metro police emergency Task Force, above, talk with a man armed with a rifle in his car yesterday n(...)
1/5/1988
Dangerous haul: A small arsenal of handguns, rifles and shotguns seized by Metro police is destroyed in a metal crusher in this 1975 picture
Dangerous haul: A small arsenal of handguns, rifles and shotguns seized by Metro police is destroyed in a metal crusher in this 1975 picture
7/21/1975
Grisly end: An Ontario Provincial Police officer walks from the commandeered taxt in which a man killed himself yesterday with a 12-gauge shotgun after wounding two officers near Peterborough
Grisly end: An Ontario Provincial Police officer walks from the commandeered taxt in which a man killed himself yesterday with a 12-gauge shotgun after wounding two officers near Peterborough
5/12/1991
Seized Rifles: Deke McBrien of the Metro police firearm registration unit examines guns seized in a Scarborough raid last year, when police raised alarms over bank robbery rates
Seized Rifles: Deke McBrien of the Metro police firearm registration unit examines guns seized in a Scarborough raid last year, when police raised alarms over bank robbery rates
7/26/1990
Hostage Warren Mitchell leaves his car yesterday as a policeman trains his rifle on parolee Francis Joseph Savoy, killed seconds later by a bullet in (...)
Hostage Warren Mitchell leaves his car yesterday as a policeman trains his rifle on parolee Francis Joseph Savoy, killed seconds later by a bullet in (...)
1/11/1976
An unhappy Vagabond. Disgruntled member is led away after police raid last night on clubhouse of Vagabonds motorcycle club in east-end Toronto. Equipp(...)
An unhappy Vagabond. Disgruntled member is led away after police raid last night on clubhouse of Vagabonds motorcycle club in east-end Toronto. Equipp(...)
5/3/1978
Hands up: Student Rob Ralph said officers made him put his hands up on his head after a bus driver saw him playing with a rifle and called police.
Hands up: Student Rob Ralph said officers made him put his hands up on his head after a bus driver saw him playing with a rifle and called police.
11/11/1991
Police Arsenal: More than 225 firearms, from machine guns to antique handguns, seized from Niagara police are displayed at yesterday's provincial probe of the force
Police Arsenal: More than 225 firearms, from machine guns to antique handguns, seized from Niagara police are displayed at yesterday's provincial probe of the force
1/9/1989
The Arsenal police seized in Lawrence apartment during a drug search Monday is sh Sgt
The Arsenal police seized in Lawrence apartment during a drug search Monday is sh Sgt
11/11/1975
They're right at home with trains, The old CP Rail station on Hensall Circle in Mississauga has been home to Lorne Heslip, a Toronto grocery-store man(...)
They're right at home with trains, The old CP Rail station on Hensall Circle in Mississauga has been home to Lorne Heslip, a Toronto grocery-store man(...)
6/11/1975