June 15, 2024
Quebec man Thursday on charges of hate speech and 3D printing of firearms
The RCMP say they arrested a Quebec man Thursday on charges of hate speech and 3D printing of firearms.
The police say they seized a “significant quantity” of 3D printers and a homemade firearm belonging to 37-year-old Pascal Tribout of Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, about 40 kilometres northwest of Montreal.
Police also say in a news release today that Tribout made hateful comments against the Jewish community on social media platform Telegram.
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He faces five charges including weapons trafficking, willful promotion of hatred, possession of a prohibited firearm and possession and distribution of data that can be used to manufacture firearms with a 3D printer.
The operation was carried out by the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.
Police say Tribout remains in custody pending further legal proceedings.
The rise of 3D printed fire arms across Canada is spreading at an alarming rate.
In March of 2024, Stacy St-Pierre, 42, and Ruby Sharma, 45, both from Pointe-des-Cascades, were arrested and later charged with possession for the purpose of weapons trafficking and importing or exporting six semi-automatic pistols known as “ghost guns”. Polymer 80 (P80) PF940C Glock type handguns.
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Ghost guns are firearms without serial numbers that are assembled from individual parts or 3D printers. They are easy to make and hard to trace, and are increasingly showing up at crime scenes in Canada and the United States.
Early last year, a Quebec-based anti-gun unit that included RCMP members said it had arrested 45 people and seized 440 guns in raids targeting manufacturers of 3D-printed firearms in eight provinces: Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Last month, a coroner’s inquest heard that the weapons used to murder three people in the Montreal area at random in August 2022 were homemade by the killer.
