Canadian snipers also saw action in Afghanistan ... army uses the Accuracy International Arctic Warfare series of sniper rifles as its standard issue, as do the German and Irish armies.

The Global Affairs department of the Canadian government "has declined ... Canada’s PGW Defense Technologies company will deliver sniper rifles to Ukraine, the Ottawa Citizen daily wrote.

On the battlefields of the First World War, Canadian soldiers found themselves frantically trying to free jammed rifles in the face of an attack. The faulty rifles came to symbolize the greed of ...