Do I Owe Lorne Gunter An Ice Cream Cone?

Maybe.  Got this email from officer Ian Shardlow this morning:

The estimates that I have received is that we destroyed approximately 3-4000 lbs of ammo and now have approximately 2-3000 lbs in our possession for destruction.  We had enough ammo in the first instance that we had to arrange for a temp magazine type storage facility because we could not store in the Detachment. 

 We had to large ammo burners going steady for several days, and have arranged for one to come back in the coming weeks.

All of this ammo was voluntarily turned in to the RCMP after the residents had returned home.

IAN

Although maybe not.  All this ammo was not, as per Gunter's implication, taken during the same sweep as the guns.  It was voluntarily given up for disposal afterwards.  Probably because it was water-damaged. So I will leave it to my readers: does Lorne Gunter get his ice-cream cone (should he claim his ice-cream cone. I'm obviously not buying one on-spec)?

And, seriously, does somebody up in High River own a cannon or two?

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Very Soon, I Think That Lorne Gunter Is Going To Look Stupid

He writes, of what happened up in High River , where RCMP officers took guns from homes abandoned after this summer's floods in Alberta:

Nearly a half hour into his grilling by residents, Shardlow was detailing how many hundreds of guns had been forcibly removed from homes and how many had already been returned.

During his enumeration, Shardlow stated matter-of-factly that in addition to firearms, Mounties had also “ burned approximately seven thousand, five hundred pounds of compromised ammunition.”

Upon hearing that, the first thing that occurred to me is that in the small boats and dinghies Mounties were using, it must have taken dozens of trips to collect nearly four tons of ammunition. That means that rather than searching for survivors, their door-stomping rampage must have been first and foremost about taking guns away from law-abiding citizens, otherwise they wouldn’t have devoted so much overtime pay and scarce equipment to the effort.

So, I am willing to bet that Shardlow meant or in fact said rounds rather than pounds, and that  Gunter is just too dumb or conspiracy-minded to see this.  I mean, that's the natural way to describe units of ammo.  And if I am proven wrong, I will buy Lorne Gunter an ice-cream cone.  But, as per usual, only one scoop.  For I am not made out of money.

PS.   All this talk of the wrong done by the RCMP up in High River is, as far as I'm concerned, pandering to gun nuts.  Gunter is either playing dumb to fan the flames,or he isn't playing.

Update here.