A 3D-Printed Pistol With a 3D-Printed Silencer Screwed Onto It, and a Smith & Wesson With One Already in the Chamber: the Sûreté du Québec Empties a House, a Garage and a Trailer on Rue des Sous-Bois and Charges Richard Péloquin, 65 (September 9, 2026)

SAINTE-CATHERINE-DE-LA-JACQUES-CARTIER — The single item that separates this file from every other rural Quebec gun seizure is a .22 calibre semi-automatic pistol that was manufactured on a 3D printer, with a suppressor that was also manufactured on a 3D printer fitted to the end of it. Beside it in the Sûreté du Québec inventory published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 sit a 3D-printed high-capacity magazine in 9mm, a separate 9mm suppressor, and a Smith & Wesson MP 9mm that officers found loaded, with a cartridge already chambered and a high-capacity magazine seated in the well. The address is a residence, a garage and a trailer on rue des Sous Bois, in a municipality of a few thousand people northwest of Quebec City. One man is charged. He is sixty-five years old.

The searches were carried out on the morning of Tuesday, September 8, 2026, by roughly twenty officers working with the SQ tactical group. The release places the file under the force’s RESPECT banner, the label the Sûreté du Québec attaches to its armed-violence enforcement, and says the investigation was opened in the summer of 2026. It does not say what opened it.

The Inventory, Itemised

The Sûreté du Québec published a line-by-line list rather than a summary figure, which is worth reading in full because the composition matters more here than the count.

The conventional firearms are a Simonov SKS carbine in 7.62, a multi-barrel carbine chambered in both .22LR and .410, and a Winchester 12-gauge shotgun whose serial number had been obliterated. An air pistol was also taken. The Smith & Wesson MP 9mm was seized loaded with a round in the chamber and a high-capacity magazine attached.

The manufactured items are the part that will interest anyone tracking where Quebec’s illegal handguns are now coming from: a .22LR semi-automatic pistol produced on a 3D printer, a suppressor for it produced the same way, a 3D-printed high-capacity magazine in 9mm, and a 9mm suppressor. A 7.62 high-capacity magazine was seized separately, as were two conducted-energy weapons, hundreds of cartridges and multiple firearm parts.

Alongside the weapons: approximately 60 grams of cocaine, $4,180 in Canadian currency, a ledger, a cellphone and a tablet. Two ballistic vest panels were also seized.

An Obliterated Serial Number and a Ledger

Two entries in that list do work the rest of it does not. A shotgun with its serial number ground off is not a hunting gun that drifted out of compliance; the number is removed for one reason. And a ledger seized alongside sixty grams of cocaine and just over four thousand dollars is the document police look for when they want to argue a trafficking count rather than a possession count. The trafficking charge is on the sheet.

What is not on the sheet is any allegation of manufacturing. The release does not say a printer was found, does not say the printed items were made at this address, and does not allege that Péloquin produced them. It says they were seized there. Nothing further is asserted here.

Who Was in the Room

The investigation was run by EILTA Québec — the mixed squad against illegal firearms trafficking staffed jointly by the Sûreté du Québec and the Service de police de la Ville de Québec. Working with it were the Escouade nationale de répression du crime organisé, the RCMP, the Service de police de la Ville de Lévis and the Sûreté du Québec post for the MRC de La Jacques-Cartier.

The presence of the ENRCO on a file in a bedroom community of this size is the detail that ordinarily signals something larger sitting behind the address. It is not, on its own, evidence of anything, and the Sûreté du Québec has named no criminal organization, no gang, no motorcycle club and no network in this release. None is named here either.

What the Release Does Not Contain

There is no file or occurrence number. There is no officer quoted — not a spokesperson, not an investigator, not a commander. There is no valuation placed on the firearms or the cocaine. There is no street address beyond the road name, no description of the trailer or the garage, no statement of how long the warrants took to execute, and no next court date for Péloquin beyond the fact of his detention.

Péloquin is presumed innocent. Every count against him is an allegation that has not been tested in court.