Firearms into Canada
Greetings...We are full-timers and plan to head up the east coast next summer and then into Montreal to visit family. I am wondering about the hassle of bringing a firearm and how much trouble it rea...
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Matt_Colie wrote:
Jbrack,
TXiceman has a good part of, but not the whole story.
It is no real problem to take a long gun into Canada, but as said, go on line and read the rules for your self and get the required paperwork.
We take our coach into Canada frequently because DW has family there.
I have family in the Northeast and New England. Fortunately, I have a home in Michigan where I can lock down everything. The whole northeast is now a cluster fork of patchwork and impassible laws. If you get caught with anything, the minimum cost to get clear is about 20k. This is why the manufactures are leaving. NY has a 5 round limit. If your weapon has a greater capacity, you go to jail. It goes on from there. If you have the wrong ammunition in NJ, you go to jail.
It used to be understood and was actually a federal ruling that "Peaceable Transit" was allowed. So, if you had a weapon unloaded and stored in a locked case, and all ammunition was also in a separate locked case, there would be now issue. These states and Illinios, California and Oregon and negated the federal rules to enforce their own standards for the persecution of those that think that the Constitution is still in I effect.
Even in Michigan, I can't legally leave my handguns with my son or daughter when we travel because they are not the registered owners. I can leave them with a friend that is an FFL. But he has to enter them into his bound book.
This won't get any easier any time soon.
Oh, and just when you thought there was a work-around, if I use wasp spray to deter an attacker in Michigan, that is a misdemeanor. Because I am only allowed to use it for the intended purpose.
I wish you safe travel.
Matt
I actually could go on, but I choose not to. A web search can fill you with horror stories.
As far as I am concerned
:S
It appears that NY has basiclyy outlawed law abiding citizens from owning a hand gun. What these law makers don’t realize is that it takes less than a second to change magazines on a semi automatic hand gun!
