Men firing bear bangers on Blackcomb Mountain spook police, public just hours after worst shooting in Canadian history

By Brandon Barrett
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On the same day the worst mass shooting in Canadian history claimed the lives of 22 victims in Nova Scotia—including an RCMP officer—Sea to Sky police responded to multiple reports of two men dressed in camouflage on Blackcomb Mountain carrying what initially appeared to be rifles. As it turned out, the men, a 52-year-old Coquitlam resident and a 42-year-old Delta resident, were firing bear bangers with a launcher “that looked like a modified rifle” and produced sounds the public mistook for gunshots, police said in a release.…

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• Whistler News

April 22, 2020

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