From The National Terror Alert website:

Police in Metro Vancouver have had their hands full for years trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to control gang-related violence and killings that make Vancouver look like Chicago in the Al Capone era.

Last week, they found something they hadn’t seen before – street vehicles outfitted with armour, surveillance cameras and bulletproof glass.

Police forces in the city have had little success in arresting and charging people involved in the dozens of murders in the past several years.

And it appears they won’t have any greater success in curbing these fortified vehicles.

It’s not illegal to outfit your vehicle with bulletproof glass or surround it with armour as long as it’s inspected and passes safety regulations and Insurance Corp. of B.C. licensing requirements.

“That’s pretty much what we’re left with from what I can see at this point,” said Sgt. Shinder Kirk, a member of the Abbotsford police department and the spokesman for the Integrated Gang Task Force.

“Our enforcement opportunities with respect to this issue lie strictly with the motor vehicle regulations that prohibit this type of modification.”

The anti-gang unit, set up in November after a rash of gang-related murders, has begun to make more traffic checks as well as frequent the bars and nightclubs where police say gang members hang out.

Recently, the unit seized seven guns, body armour and two vehicles equipped with bullet-proof glass, armour plating and high-tech surveillance cameras.

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Last month, police stopped a luxury SUV and found the vehicle had been fitted with bullet-proof windows and it also had a secondary rear gate that police described as having “ballistic integrity.”

The report is unsourced, and contains a lot of hinting by Canadian police that “there ought to be a law, eh” which makes me suspect the report is overblown, but it is something to think about.

If bulletproof accessories are cheap and affordable it isn’t just gangs that could use them, but terrorists who want a few extra minutes of mayhem for a suicide attack on hard targets like police stations will find them especially useful.