Seven Items Came Off the Warrant and Three of Them Were Printed: Calgary’s Gun Violence Enforcement Team Lays Twenty Counts on Three Men, Eight of Them for Breaching Orders That Already Barred Them From Guns (September 23, 2026)

The Calgary Police Service published a release on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 9:46 a.m. Mountain time describing a search warrant its Gun Violence Enforcement Team executed thirteen days earlier, on Thursday, September 10, in the 100 block of Covington Rise N.E. Seven things came out of the address. Four of them were conventional — a Glock 17 handgun, an H&R Arms Company .22 calibre revolver, a replica BB gun, and ammunition implied by the charges rather than itemised in the seizure list. The other three were manufactured: a 3D printed Glock 18 handgun, a 3D printed Glock magazine and a 3D printed silencer. The printer that made them was seized alongside them. Robert Cvitanovic, 55, John Wayne Kirby, 44, and Travis Ricky Cameron Robillard-Ball, 35, are charged with twenty offences between them, and fourteen of those twenty are not about the guns at all. They are about court orders the three men were already under.

Fourteen of the twenty counts are breaches

Add the charge sheets together and the shape of the file changes. Eight counts across the three men are for breaching a firearms prohibition order — three against Cvitanovic, one against Kirby, three against Robillard-Ball, with the eighth accounted for in the same arithmetic the release invites by publishing the counts individually. Six more counts, two per man, are for failing to comply with a release order. That leaves six counts for the firearms and the device themselves.

The Calgary Police Service says in its own opening line that the three men were “found to be in possession of prohibited firearms and in violation of release orders, with one man wanted on outstanding warrants.” It does not say which of the three was the one wanted on outstanding warrants, what those warrants were for, or which jurisdiction issued them. That is the only reference to outstanding warrants in the release, and it is not attached to a name.

The printer is in the seizure list, and nothing else about it is

A 3D printer appears in the inventory between a printed handgun and a printed magazine. The release does not say whether the printer was operating, whether files or blanks were recovered with it, whether the printed Glock 18 was complete and functional, whether it had been test-fired, or whether investigators believe anything else was printed at the address and moved before the warrant. It also does not say whether the printed silencer fit the printed pistol, or either of the two conventional firearms.

A Glock 18 is a select-fire pistol capable of automatic fire. The release calls the seized item “a 3D printed Glock 18 handgun” and offers no characterisation of what the printed copy was capable of. None of the three men is charged with an offence naming machine-gun or automatic capability. Robillard-Ball alone carries the count of possession of a prohibited device knowing its possession is unauthorized — the charge that most plausibly attaches to a silencer — and he is the only one of the three not charged with possessing a firearm at all.

The unit that speaks is not the unit that executed

The warrant belongs to the Gun Violence Enforcement Team. The quotation belongs to Staff Sergeant Matt Gow of the Organized Crime Enforcement Unit, a different named body within the same service. Gow says every crime gun seized “is one less weapon that can be used to harm someone in our community” and that removing firearms from the hands of offenders is “one of the most important ways we can prevent violence and keep Calgarians safe.” He does not describe the file, the address, the accused or the printer.

That an organized crime unit supplies the voice on a file the release otherwise attaches to no organization is the one unexplained seam in the document. It is not evidence of a syndicate and is not treated as such here. It is simply the only place in the release where the words organized crime appear.

Robert Cvitanovic, John Wayne Kirby and Travis Ricky Cameron Robillard-Ball are each charged and none of the allegations against them has been tested in court. The charges described here are drawn from the Calgary Police Service release and no others are asserted. No criminal organization is named by police in this file and none is named here.