WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man has been fined $8,000 for smuggling non-lethal replica firearms into Canada from the United States.
Zaeem Ahmed pleaded guilty Wednesday in provincial court to smuggling and possession of unlawfully imported goods.
He was charged after Canadian Border Services seized 18 shipments of the guns, which look exactly like real firearms, but fire plastic pellets using compressed gas or a spring.
Such firearms are not considered to be lethal weapons, but are prohibited devices under Canadian law.
The federal agency says Ahmed ordered the replica firearms and then sold them in Canada on the Internet.
Ahmed has also been prohibited from owning weapons for 10 years.
