This is one of the suppressors seized in the probe.Weakening Lee will have widespread impact this weekend | SaltWireWhen border agents intercepted gun silencers destined for a hardware store in central Nova Scotia this past spring, it triggered a criminal investigation that's still going on into who was importing the prohibited devices.
Just one month earlier, Greer appeared to have received a Purolator shipment with “similar characteristics; being ‘two fuel filters’ from China,” Hicks said in information to obtain a search warrant filed at Truro provincial court. A woman believed to be his common-law spouse owns the Tamarack Drive home where he lives, Hicks said.Greer had ordered some items to the hardware store where he worked, including gold jewelry, which “appeared to be of a personal nature,” and was not “consistent with the nature of the business,” said the investigator.
Border agents saw Christopher Ryan Greer's 2015 grey Toyota Corolla parked in the Home Hardware's lot. They compared photos shot at the hardware store with his driver’s licence, to make sure they had the right person.Hicks and another investigator even grabbed the garbage from out front of the Tamarack Drive home in mid-May, locating a carboard box with Greer’s name on the label.
Any device “intended to muffle or stop the sound or report of a firearm” is prohibited under Canadian law, Hicks said.Mounties have determined that the devices Greer imported as fuel filters are actually silencers. On June 13, border agents noticed Greer’s car wasn’t outside the hardware store. One of them “called Home Hardware and asked to speak to Ryan Greer and he was told that Greer no longer works there,” said the investigator.'Shows an immediacy'
“I believe Ryan Greer is conducting target practice at a place other than a range … necessitating his need to purchase the suppressors.”