A man and a woman face more than a dozen charges after police raided an Ottawa apartment and seized almost 50 prohibited weapons, including a Yaqua blowgun with darts, and about 100 legal weapons.

After executing a search warrant at a Lees Avenue address, police said officers seized prohibited weapons that included:

• Four stun guns.
• Six nunchaku sticks, a karate weapon.
• Six shuriken throwing stars.
• One Yaqua blowgun with darts.
• One morning star, a club with a spiked ball.
• 30 switchblades.
• Three pairs of brass knuckles.
• One sword cane.
• One kusari, a chained weapon.

They also seized around 100 legal weapons, such as long swords, broad swords, fighting knives and throwing knives, some imitation and replica guns and two sets of "house break-in instruments," police said in a news release.

The two, both of Ottawa, face 18 charges each, including possession of prohibited weapons and importing prohibited weapons. They were released under conditions that include a ban on the possession of weapons, police said.

Ottawa police said the Ontario Provincial Police weapons unit and the Canadian Border Services Agency assisted in the raid, but would not say what information prompted the search warrant.