Mr. Speaker, with regard to (a), as there is no requirement to register non-restricted firearms with the RCMP Canadian firearms program, it is not possible to provide actual counts or estimates for the number of firearms legally owned in Canada or the number of firearms owners. However, as of December 31, 2024, there were 1,267,992 firearms registered in Canada and 814,005 licences with prohibited and/or restricted privileges.
With regard to (b), as of December 31, 2024, there were775,266 restricted licence-holders, 38,739 prohibited licence-holders, 1,104,147 restricted firearms registered and163,845 prohibited firearms registered.
Regarding the classification and specific make and model of firearms, the RCMP undertook an extensive preliminary search in order to determine the amount of information that would fall within the scope of the question and the amount of time that would be required to prepare a comprehensive response. The level of detail of the information requested is not systematically tracked in a centralized database. The RCMP is a decentralized organization composed of over 700 detachments in 150 communities across the country. The RCMP concluded that producing and validating a comprehensive response to this question would require a manual collection of information that is not possible in the time allotted and this could lead to the disclosure of incomplete and misleading information.