The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian paramilitary police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the 1870 transfer of Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, the Red River Rebellion and in response to lawlessness, demonstrat...

2014年1月1日 · The larger than normal procurement made the MLE the de facto shoulder arm of the NWMP until 1905 (RNWMP by 1904) when the government elected to arm the Mounties with the same arm of the militia on account of its paramilitary ethos. That move would be for the infamous Ross Mk I.

2020年1月31日 · One of the very early clients of the Ross Rifle Company was the Royal North West Mounted Police (later merged with the Dominion Police to form the RCMP). The Mounties purchased 500 Ross MkI carbines, which were actually the …

2006年2月7日 · The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was the forerunner of Canada's iconic Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Created after Confederation to police the frontier territories of the Canadian West, the NWMP ended the whiskey trade on the southern prairies and the violence that came with it.

2016年12月6日 · The guns were marked "NWMP" on their backstraps, along with a special issue number. Designations would change over the gun's half-century service life. Some were simply marked "NWMP" on the backstraps without an issue number, and when the unit became the Royal North West Mounted Police in 1904, subsequent arms were stamped "RNWMP."

2020年1月31日 · One of the very early clients of the Ross Rifle Company was the Royal North West Mounted Police (later merged with the Dominion Police to form the RCMP). The Mounties purchased 500 Ross MkI...

A definitive history of the revolvers, rifles, machine guns, cannons, ammunition, swords, lances, saddlery, holsters, etc. used by the NWMP, RNWMP, and the RCMP during the first hundred years of the Force. An important 15-page appendix listing the serial numbers of many hundreds of the weapons actually used by the Force has been included.

One Member was killed and another policeman and a soldier, Major Frank Hershel, Cdn Corps of Signals, were wounded before Johnson was finally shot and killed in a gun battle in March of 1932.

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2016年11月3日 · Here we present a C&R Colt “New Service” Model Revolver in .45 Colt, made in 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut. The Colt New Service is a large frame, double-action revolver made by Colt from 1898 until 1946. This World War I era example has “RNWMP 1472”, for Royal Northwest Mounted Police marked on the back strap.