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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Can't remember if Alaska requires shotguns to be plugged for 3 shells or not...better check. I assume you will be using the 12 g version. Neither a 20 gauge nor a 9mm will deter a brown bear. You can buy some bear spray in Anchorage or in Canada. I also carry bear bangers which you can buy in many sporting goods stores in Canada. Noisemaker, loud as a shotgun, fits in your shirt pocket. Probably as much use as a 9mm, which definitely will not penetrate a bear skull...neither will a 12g for that matter but the 12g will crush it without penetrating.
