doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com How should/would you answer?

Last month during a family vacation along the northern border we (young kids, parents, grandparents) piled into a mini van for a day visit to the Canadian side. All of the passports and birth certificates were in order and the immigration interaction on the Canadian side began normally. After requiring the windows to be rolled down and sunglasses removed the agent asked the driver, “Do you have any guns in the vehicle?” The driver has lived his entire life in the area and had made this same trip countless times. He’d never been asked this before and was a bit surprised. He answered truthfully, “No.” From there the line of questioning became more disconcerting.
“Do you have any guns at home?”
“It is illegal to bring guns into Canada.”
“What kind of guns do you have at home?”
“When was the last time you shot them?”
“When was the last time you had guns in your car?”
“If you have a gun in the car we can hold it for you until you leave.”
“If we inspect your vehicle and find a gun you WILL be arrested.”

Interspersed through this interaction, the agent prefaced some queries with, “This is not a trick question …”

The visit occurred in the time window after the breakdown of US-Canada trade talks and before Lake America and has prompted several more conversations as to, “What was that all about?” Nothing that we can think of would cause anyone to think that we were anything other than three generations of a “plain vanilla” family. None of the boys even had a camo cap on.

Where should the driver/where would you have “drawn the line”, declined to answer, and turned around and come back to the US (if that would have even been permitted without an inspection)?

If I had been alone I would have refused as soon as the conversation went bad. But, with a family counting on me I would have sucked it up and tried my best to be congenial.

I WOULD have asked why what I have and what I do at home concerning guns is of concern. If he had denied access to Canada because of that, so be it.

It isn’t clear if you are speaking about the Canadian agents, or, if this started on the US side of the border. If it was the US agents, they were probably trying to keep you out of trouble. If it was the Canadian guys, I’d guess they were attempting a “gotcha”, with a strip search and dismantling the vehicle.

There’s revenue in them there minivans, buster. It happens all the time.

When my son was about 6, we had a meeting with his doctor. After the physical, the doctor brought out the AMA approved antigun script, and proceeded to start asking my son questions. “Are there guns in your home”? My boy looked at me, as we had practiced this for a few years. “Tell him, Punk”, I said, with a slight smile. The boy looked at the doctor and said “My dad has guns stacked like cordwood, in our house”. The doc asked him if he felt safe. The boy said “My dad’s magazines in the handguns should all be higher capacity than they are. I’d feel safer if he had a few more around, too. About every 5 feet is just right. I like the autoloaders cocked and locked, but, dad is old school, he’s a revolver guy”.

The doc said “Well, we can stop with this”, put the script away, and sent us on our way. He was a good doctor, but was completely beholden to the AMA and the twisted logic they subscribe to.

We had ice cream on the way home. At 10:30AM in the morning. I asked the boy not to tell mom.

He never did.

Best,
Ted

Tell them you are hunting draft dodgers from every American war back to and including the American revolution and need guns to do it effectively.

"I am a firearms dealer in the USA and have hundreds of all kinds of firearms from single shot pistols to NFA items and everything in between."

Are you looking for something in particular?

Yea, I missed that. Sorry. Wonder if the US guys just waved them through.

Customs guys all seem to have a Napoleonic complex, however.

Best,
Ted

Funny, but those elbozos up’ers are a humorless lot and tend to get triggered quite easily.

And Ted said my Canadian passport was useless.


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🇺🇸 That border agent probably should have targeted someone wearing a MAGA hat and Babylon Bee gear. 🇨🇦

Be super useless if they catch you with a spent round of .22 ammunition in a car with US plates on it.

Best,
Ted

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At the end of the day, I can get blueberries and maple syrup somewhere else.

A friend and I are flying to Saskatchewan in two weeks for waterfowl hunting and will be bringing guns, with the correct Canadian form, of course. I have been concerned that the current political situation might complicate what should be a straightforward transaction at the airport, and this report does nothing to set my mind at ease.