Over 100 guns were seized all at once at a single property, and Stratford police call it a “hoarding issue.”
Police said they carried out a search warrant at a Perth South address last Wednesday, Aug. 13, after getting information about guns stored unsafely in the house and all around the property.
Police said of the 165 firearms they found, about 65 were handguns “within the restricted or prohibited class of firearms.”
Officers also found “a very large amount” of gun parts, ammunition, even gun powder — all of it was seized.
A Stratford Police spokesperson told 570 NewsRadio the guns were found all around the property: in the home, in barns and sheds — even in broken down vehicles on the property.
None of the guns were found out in the open.
Police believed this to be a hoarding situation, and possibly a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder behaviour.
A 69-year-old resident was charged with careless use of firearms.
