A Regina man is facing a variety of weapons-related charges after police found prohibited guns as well as gun parts that had been made with a 3D printer.
In a media release Thursday, the Regina Police Service said its Crime Reduction Team and representatives of the Canada Border Services Agency spent two months investigating the illegal importation of prohibited devices into Canada.
Last Thursday, after getting a referral from the CBSA Vancouver International Mail Centre, police and CBSA investigators searched a house in the 300 block of Holland Avenue in the Douglas Place neighbourhood.
A 58-year-old man was arrested and investigators found 3D printers, restricted and non-restricted guns, firearm parts, ammunition, prohibited weapons, prohibited devices, and 3D-printed gun components.
Charges against the man included four counts of weapons manufacturing, seven counts of possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon knowing its possession was unauthorized and two counts of possession of weapons for the purpose of trafficking.
He made his first court appearance last Friday.