Originally Posted by
Otto
I agree the amount of spent casings being talked about doesn't make sense. The use of shotguns for police and the military would be primarily for delivering "non-lethal" projectiles (such as in riot control).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_bullet
If you've got the weapons, you need to train with them which would result in spent casings. As a former Base Defence Force platoon commander, I recall this being covered in "Aid to the civil power" training.
I'm 67 years old and had to rely on
Wikipedia to find out when we Canadian's acatually had a riot there have been a total of 31 riots in Canada
- 1849 – Stony Monday Riot (Bytown, Ontario, Canada
- 1849 – Montreal Riots (Montreal, Canada
- 1917 – Quebec Easter riots, (Quebec, Canada
- 1918 – Anti-Greek riots, Toronto, Canada, involved 5,000 veterans destroying and looting over 20 Greek businesses causing $100,000 damage, 16 police and 150 rioting veterans and civilians were hurt
- 1919 – Bloody Saturday, Winnipeg, Canada
- 1933 – Christie Pits Race Riots Toronto, Canada
- 1935 – Regina Riot Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
- 1935 – Battle of Ballantyne Pier Vancouver, Canada
- 1938 – Bloody Sunday Vancouver, Canada
- 1944 – The Montreal and Verdun Zoot-Suit disturbances of June 1944, Montreal, Canada
- 1945 – Halifax Riot, (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 1955 – The Richard Riot March 17, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1968 – Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day riot, Montreal, Canada
- 1969 – Sir George Williams Computer Riot, Montreal, Canada
- 1969 – Murray-Hill riot, Montreal, Québec, Canada
- 1971 – Gastown Riots, August 1971, Vancouver, Canada
- 1981 – 1981 Toronto bathhouse riots, February 1981, Toronto, Canada
- 1992 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – Riot after Guns N' Roses show during the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour.
- 1993 – Stanley Cup Riot, Montreal, Canada, June 9, 1993.
- 1994 – Stanley Cup Riot, Vancouver, Canada, June 14, 1994
- 2001 – Quebec City Summit of the Americas, April 2001 Quebec, Canada
- 2001 – Canada Day Riot, July 2001, Edmonton, Canada
- 2003 – The Exploited Montreal riot, Montreal, Canada
- 2006 – Stanley Cup Western Conference Finals (Edmonton Oilers victory), May 2006, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- 2008 – August 2008 Montreal North Riot Montreal, Canada
- 2010 – Riots in Vancouver, Canada during the 2010 Winter Olympics
- 2010 – Riots in Toronto, Canada during the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, 1105 arrests
- 2010 – Prison riot in Quebec, Canada, 2 killed
- 2011 – Riots in Vancouver, Canada after the Vancouver Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup
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