The United States and Canada signed four agreements in Ottawa on Friday focused on reducing cross-border crime, including one that involves increased tracing of guns that are intercepted at the U.S.–Canada border.
The move is intended to enhance efforts to stop firearms trafficking to Canada from the United States, officials from both countries said.
Canada’s Border Services Agency (CBSA) will cooperate with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to trace guns seized at the border to see who purchased them and whether they were previously used in crimes.
“Canada and the United States have agreed to strengthen the bilateral cooperation to reduce gun violence,” Canada’s Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino said. “It means making even more progress on the tracing of illegal guns so that we can hold those criminals and organized criminal networks to account.”…