Crossing Into Canada with a Firearm
Hi everyone: We are in the deep planning stages for a journey to Alaska, sometime in 2016. We plan to bring along a couple of firearms - a 9MM handgun and 12g shotgun. We have read, pretty much...
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This is my personal experience with declaring a handgun at the border crossing into Canada. We were on a Western States tour for the summer and boon docking, thats why the .45. We wanted to go into Canada for the night to see Waterton National Park, we spoke with Park Rangers in Glacier NP and they told us how to do it.
Now our story is different than yours because we were only there for 24 hours. We rolled up to Canadian Border Check point, an officer approached the window and asked citizenship, early in the conversation I declared that I had a handgun in the back of the camper and that I wanted to "check" it. Very politely he asked me to drive over to a marked parking stall and stay in the vehicle until another officer arrived. Second officer came over and asked me to open the back of the camper and step back, asked where the gun was and then he went in to retrieve it. We then followed him into the main building where he checked our gun into their holding area, gave us a receipt and told us we had 30 days to come back for the gun or it would be destroyed.
We returned the next day and retrieved our gun. Through the entire process the Canadian Border Guards were extremely nice, professional, and mellow. not onetime were we asked why?. They had done this before and it seemed routine.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Now our story is different than yours because we were only there for 24 hours. We rolled up to Canadian Border Check point, an officer approached the window and asked citizenship, early in the conversation I declared that I had a handgun in the back of the camper and that I wanted to "check" it. Very politely he asked me to drive over to a marked parking stall and stay in the vehicle until another officer arrived. Second officer came over and asked me to open the back of the camper and step back, asked where the gun was and then he went in to retrieve it. We then followed him into the main building where he checked our gun into their holding area, gave us a receipt and told us we had 30 days to come back for the gun or it would be destroyed.
We returned the next day and retrieved our gun. Through the entire process the Canadian Border Guards were extremely nice, professional, and mellow. not onetime were we asked why?. They had done this before and it seemed routine.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
