Ed, my message today after checking with CBS to nephew in Rome, for what it's worth:
"Figuring there would be a lot of phone finger-poking selection to Canada Border Service, I called them from here and finally got a person who said she knew about importing a non-restricted long gun.
If you buy it, "make sure it conforms to non-restricted, not short-barrelled and check with airline re baggage. See that it has a trigger lock. Present you PAL, declare it and that's it."
You may declare "under his $800 or if it's over that pay eight or nine per cent duty and HST." Sounds simple, I said. "Yes, it is." If it's hooey, I'll plead the Fifth. Maybe someone at the embassy can confirm?"
As an aside, this is all illuminating to me. He's been using clickety-clacks and gas pipes as tools in the salt water gunning hereabout, not always for the faint of heart. He has a new SKB Model 100 bought years ago which is "too good" to shoot with steel. Now, thinking big money in Rome. He explained:
"The Beretta Model Parrallelo is a side by side. It's new, crafted for waterfowl hunting. I have no particular reason for gravitating toward a side-by-side over an O/U, only the experience of a side-by-side being the first shotgun I fired (and first black duck I shot) at Marion Boy's Choir. I was with Dad and I can still see him running for the retrieve shouting "You GOT it!"
Marion Boy Choir was a coastal property.
Last edited by King Brown; 11/04/13 02:51 PM.
