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Despite a lifetime weapons ban, Basil Borutski still carried a firearms possession and acquisition licence in his wallet up to the day he killed three women, two with a shotgun, on Sept. 22, 2015.
His card was later entered into evidence in Borutski’s triple-murder trial after investigators found it, along with the other contents of his wallet, in the console of the car he drove to the first murder scene that day.
Documents obtained by this newspaper show Borutski, 60, was first granted a possession and acquisition licence (PAL) on July 9, 2007. The licence, administered federally through each province’s chief firearms officer, expires after five years. Borutski was issued a new card in July, 2012.
Later that same month, he was arrested while living at Nathalie Warmerdam’s Foymount Road farmhouse, and later convicted on domestic charges for threatening to “hang” her son Adrian.
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The licence was revoked on Dec. 20, 2012 following a court-ordered 10-year weapons ban. He was then slapped with a lifetime weapons ban in 2014 following a second conviction on domestic charges related to Anastasia Kuzyk.
While his permit to acquire and possess a weapon was officially revoked, Borutski evidently still held onto his licence card.
A firearms possession and acquisition licence found in Basil Borutski’s wallet and entered into evidence.
The card bore an expiry date of Oct. 17, 2017, Borutski’s 60th birthday, which he spent in the prisoner’s box at his trial.
There is, however, no evidence Borutski ever used the card to attempt to purchase a restricted or prohibited firearm. He claimed in a police interview the morning after the murders to have found the gun and salvaged some shells from a scrapyard, years before the killings.
An official with Ontario’s chief firearms office, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak candidly about the program, said Borutski would have set off alarm bells had he tried to buy a gun with a revoked licence.
He could, however, have been able to walk out of a sporting goods store with freshly-purchased ammunition, the official confirmed.
Before selling ammunition, though, the retailer is required to record the buyer’s name, date of birth, home address, and the quantity and type of bullets purchased.
The buyer would also have to show a second piece of government-issued identification, since the PAL does not bear the holder’s address.
If a prospective buyer attempts to buy a gun with a revoked licence, “we will flag it,” the official said.
Retailers are linked to the RCMP-managed database, and the chief firearms office will contact the seller to say the transaction cannot be processed.
“If it’s blocked, there’s a reason and it’s usually not a good reason,” the official said.
If someone barred from purchasing a weapon attempts to buy a restricted or prohibited firearm, the office will also alert police in that jurisdiction to the attempted transaction.
An offender is required to surrender all prohibited weapons following a court revocation order, and the duty then falls on law enforcement to seize any firearms and related documents, including the licence card and registration.
But, the official acknowledged, there’s little recourse if the offender does not surrender his licence – if he was not carrying the card at the time of arrest, for instance.
“If he decides to bury it under a rock, or if he’s lying through his teeth,” the official said, “there’s not much they can do.”
Borutski kept his shotgun stashed in a plastic bag in a bush along the side of the road, he told an OPP detective during his interrogation.
He claimed he found the gun when he was living in a farmhouse next to a scrapyard some time around 2013. He kept the gun as protection from police who he believed were harassing him.
“When I lived on that farm I was afraid there, I was all alone, light shining in the windows, middle of the night (from a) police cruiser,” he said in a police interrogation. “I went for a walk down the road one time … a police cruiser idling behind me all the way. I was panicking, I just walked off into the bush (and) that’s probably when I found the gun.”
Borustki told a police detective during his interrogation he found the gun, aged at least 60 years and rusted, under the floorboards of an old motor home in the scrapyard, and salvaged a collection of shells from old cars and cabs of pickup trucks.
A firearms expert testified in the late stages of Borutski’s trial the J.C. Higgins Model 20 — sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co. in the 1950s or early 1960s — was in good working order despite the rusted barrel, which had toolmarks showing where the shotgun was sawed down.
A forensics expert testified the spent shells recovered from the Wilno scene where he shot and killed Kuzyk at close range with triple-aught buckshot, and the Foymount Road scene where he shot and killed Warmerdam with birdshot, were both fired from Borutski’s gun.
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His card was later entered into evidence in Borutski’s triple-murder trial after investigators found it, along with the other contents of his wallet, in the console of the car he drove to the first murder scene that day.
Documents obtained by this newspaper show Borutski, 60, was first granted a possession and acquisition licence (PAL) on July 9, 2007. The licence, administered federally through each province’s chief firearms officer, expires after five years. Borutski was issued a new card in July, 2012.
Later that same month, he was arrested while living at Nathalie Warmerdam’s Foymount Road farmhouse, and later convicted on domestic charges for threatening to “hang” her son Adrian.
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The licence was revoked on Dec. 20, 2012 following a court-ordered 10-year weapons ban. He was then slapped with a lifetime weapons ban in 2014 following a second conviction on domestic charges related to Anastasia Kuzyk.
While his permit to acquire and possess a weapon was officially revoked, Borutski evidently still held onto his licence card.
A firearms possession and acquisition licence found in Basil Borutski’s wallet and entered into evidence.
The card bore an expiry date of Oct. 17, 2017, Borutski’s 60th birthday, which he spent in the prisoner’s box at his trial.
There is, however, no evidence Borutski ever used the card to attempt to purchase a restricted or prohibited firearm. He claimed in a police interview the morning after the murders to have found the gun and salvaged some shells from a scrapyard, years before the killings.
An official with Ontario’s chief firearms office, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak candidly about the program, said Borutski would have set off alarm bells had he tried to buy a gun with a revoked licence.
He could, however, have been able to walk out of a sporting goods store with freshly-purchased ammunition, the official confirmed.
Before selling ammunition, though, the retailer is required to record the buyer’s name, date of birth, home address, and the quantity and type of bullets purchased.
The buyer would also have to show a second piece of government-issued identification, since the PAL does not bear the holder’s address.
If a prospective buyer attempts to buy a gun with a revoked licence, “we will flag it,” the official said.
Retailers are linked to the RCMP-managed database, and the chief firearms office will contact the seller to say the transaction cannot be processed.
“If it’s blocked, there’s a reason and it’s usually not a good reason,” the official said.
If someone barred from purchasing a weapon attempts to buy a restricted or prohibited firearm, the office will also alert police in that jurisdiction to the attempted transaction.
An offender is required to surrender all prohibited weapons following a court revocation order, and the duty then falls on law enforcement to seize any firearms and related documents, including the licence card and registration.
But, the official acknowledged, there’s little recourse if the offender does not surrender his licence – if he was not carrying the card at the time of arrest, for instance.
“If he decides to bury it under a rock, or if he’s lying through his teeth,” the official said, “there’s not much they can do.”
Borutski kept his shotgun stashed in a plastic bag in a bush along the side of the road, he told an OPP detective during his interrogation.
He claimed he found the gun when he was living in a farmhouse next to a scrapyard some time around 2013. He kept the gun as protection from police who he believed were harassing him.
“When I lived on that farm I was afraid there, I was all alone, light shining in the windows, middle of the night (from a) police cruiser,” he said in a police interrogation. “I went for a walk down the road one time … a police cruiser idling behind me all the way. I was panicking, I just walked off into the bush (and) that’s probably when I found the gun.”
Borustki told a police detective during his interrogation he found the gun, aged at least 60 years and rusted, under the floorboards of an old motor home in the scrapyard, and salvaged a collection of shells from old cars and cabs of pickup trucks.
A firearms expert testified in the late stages of Borutski’s trial the J.C. Higgins Model 20 — sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co. in the 1950s or early 1960s — was in good working order despite the rusted barrel, which had toolmarks showing where the shotgun was sawed down.
A forensics expert testified the spent shells recovered from the Wilno scene where he shot and killed Kuzyk at close range with triple-aught buckshot, and the Foymount Road scene where he shot and killed Warmerdam with birdshot, were both fired from Borutski’s gun.
ahelmer@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/helmera
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