The defendant pleaded guilty to three counts: operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, carrying a loaded restricted firearm without reasonable precautions for safety, and possessing a loaded restricted firearm without a licence or registration certificate.
The Crown sought a global sentence of three years imprisonment.
The defence sought a conditional sentence or, alternatively, pre-trial custody credit and a fine.
The court imposed a custodial sentence of 30 months on the firearm possession charge, nine months on the careless handling charge, and a $1,500 fine with a 12-month driving prohibition on the impaired driving charge.
The court also imposed a lifetime firearm prohibition for prohibited firearms and a 10-year prohibition for other firearms, a DNA order, and forfeiture of the handgun.
