NS Mass Shooting: How Gun Smuggling Happened, and the Inquiry’s Call for Reforms

RCMP officers descend on a gas station in Enfield, N.S., where the gunman behind the mass killing was shot dead, on April 19, 2022. The Canadian Press/Tim Krochak

HALIFAX—A decade before a Nova Scotia man used smuggled guns to murder 22 people in the province in 2020, police information systems had labelled him as a firearms risk.

Yet those records never found their way to the Canada Border Services Agency, and they didn’t prevent the mass shooter from obtaining a Nexus card — granting him status as a low−risk traveller.