ManitobaA Manitoba man has been sentenced to five years in prison after border services and police officers found a number of prohibited firearms and tools used to make untraceable firearms.Robert Ripcik pleaded guilty to a number of firearms-related chargesCBC News · Posted: Jun 30, 2025 12:28 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 30Robert Ripcik, 57, was given a five-year prison sentence on Friday after these weapons were seized from a rural property last year, the Canada Border Services Agency says. (Canada Border Services Agency)A Manitoba man has been sentenced to five years in prison after border services and police officers found a number of prohibited firearms and tools used to make untraceable firearms.Robert Ripcik, 57, was given a five-year prison sentence on Friday, as well as a 10-year firearms prohibition and an order to provide a DNA sample, the Canada Border Services Agency said in a news release.Ripcik, who lives in Beausejour, Man., has been in custody since he was arrested in March 2024.He pleaded guilty to a number of charges in Selkirk provincial court, including unauthorized possession of firearms, making false statements, and possessing prohibited devices, illegally imported goods and a prohibited firearm with readily accessible ammunition.Investigators began to look into Ripcik in April 2023, after CBSA officers in Winnipeg found a shipment of items used to make firearms without serial numbers, or “ghost guns,” which are untraceable.Officers with the CBSA and RCMP searched a rural property near Chatfield, Man., about a year later.They seized a number of prohibited and non-restricted firearms, as well as a 3D printer, multiple overcapacity magazines, a fully automatic AR-15 pattern rifle, and handgun parts without serial numbers.
Manitoba man, 57, given 5-year prison sentence after border officers found ghost-gun-making materials
