{"id":594435,"date":"2026-04-10T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:01:16","slug":"one-man-arrested-in-surrey-b-c-over-3d-printed-firearms-lab-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594435\/","title":{"rendered":"One man arrested in Surrey, B.C., over 3D printed firearms lab | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775811676_83_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RCMP logo shown in Edmonton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jason Franson<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 9, 2026 | 12:26 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SURREY \u2014 A man has been arrested by police in Surrey, B.C., in an investigation into illegal manufacturing of 3D printed firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the investigation began in March when officers learned of someone making the weapons, as well as uploading the schematics for the guns online.<\/p>\n<p>Canada updated its Criminal Code in 2023, outlawing the distribution of data involving 3D printed firearms, in a law that police say is \u201cunique\u201d to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they identified the suspect in the case and arrested the man last week, and he remains in custody while charges are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RCMP logo shown in Edmonton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jason Franson By The Canadian Press Apr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-594435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-central-vancouver-island","12":"tag-nanaimo","13":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news","15":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","16":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oceanside","19":"tag-parksville","20":"tag-qualicum","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}