This is not a normal thing to find in a modest apartment in Canada
a country with strict gun control laws
It's a Glock 17 with an add-on selector switch that makes it fully automatic, along
with a high-capacity 50 round magazine. This beast wasn't alone in the apartment in Toronto
Not by a long shot. The Mob Reporter here with news this week of what Toronto Police confirm is the
biggest single day seizure of guns and drugs in the city's history. All told, police found 65 guns
15,000 rounds of ammunition, several high-capacity magazines, and 18.2 million dollars worth of drugs
in a single apartment unit of a man with no known criminal history
Police said the guns were destined for the city's street gangs and crime organizations
Attention was drawn to the area after reports of trafficking activity. Officers soon zeroed
in on this place — a small low-rise apartment building on Cloverhill Street in Etobicoke
in Toronto's west end. It's typically a quiet neighborhood, filled with homes, schools, and parks
Police entered the apartment on Nov. 17. "Once inside the apartment, officers immediately located
significant amounts of narcotics, firearms which were which were in plain sight to the officers
The subsequent ensuing search of the premises located
additional large quantities of illicit narcotics, firearms, ammunitions, and firearm magazines."
Inside they found a 45-year-old man named Daniel Dubajic, who has no criminal record
Dubajic was calm and cooperative, officers say. That may speak well to his keen interest in New Age
healing and wellness, which is how he said he made his living. His landlord said he had lived there
for more than two decades, was never any trouble and always paid his rent on time. Of the firearms
seized, 57 were handguns, most are restricted or prohibited in Canada. There was quite a range
from BB guns converted to .22-caliber pistols to a particularly powerful .50-caliber Desert Eagle and
a TEC-9 variant — a gun that can hold large capacity magazines and was widely associated in the media
and pop culture to street gangs and school shooters of the 1990s. There was a polymer 80 kit
assembled with no serial number, and semi-automatic rifles that mimic the look of military weapons
The modified Glock 17s, however, are particularly curious. The 9mm pistol can accept an
add-on selector switch — the small black box at the back of the slide. The flick of that switch
can flip it from semi-auto to fully auto fire. They seem fairly rare even in the United States
Toronto police couldn't provide me video of it being fired, so I turned to a couple of popular
U.S. firearm enthusiasts on YouTube for that — such as Andrew from GY6vids
and also from Hickok45 here: "You don't believe that do you?"
"I didn't think you would." They certainly show the power of these weapons
I'll put a link in the descriptions to their full videos
Guns in Canada are a controversial subject. The current government has been pushing ever stricter
gun control measures in response to public shootings. Both sides of the gun debate will
be closely watching this seizure. For gun opponents it shows the hunger for dangerous weapons on the
streets of Canada's largest city, and may fuel their call for harsher punishment and sterner
action. Gun rights enthusiasts, however, will want to know where these guns came from. When it comes
to crime guns, the data shows that most aren't being diverted from the legal market in Canada
They're being smuggled into the country from the United States. It's called the I-75 route. That's
the major interstate highway running from southern Florida through to Michigan, with a convenient exit
at the Ambassador Bridge, a major border crossing from Detroit into Windsor, Ontario. This route is a
huge source of illegal guns in Canada. The weapons found in this apartment are currently being traced
to establish where they came from and check to see if they have been fired during any crimes
So far: "I can tell you out of the 57 firearms, handguns, 39 have been currently traced. 32 of those,
sorry, out of the 39 currently traced, 37 are traced to the United States, with two from Canada. Out
of the long guns, five of the long guns have been traced to Canadian sources."
Thanks for watching