Farnworth says B.C. may open its own gun lab to ensure firearms prosecutions

B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says he is “very, very concerned” about funding cuts at RCMP forensic labs that are preventing some illegal firearms seized by police from being analyzed.
Postmedia has revealed over the last week that the two national RCMP labs that do forensic examinations of guns used in crimes don’t have the capacity to handle all the requests they are getting.
And that means, in some cases, criminals caught with illegal firearms may not face any g