This is not new. Son crossed into Canada heading to Alaska with the maritime seaway shut down and with kayaks on roof of truck during the heart of Covid in June 2020. The BC Canadian border guards questioned him in the same way - "do you have guns? Do you have guns at home?" (and then gave him 4 days to drive from the Canadian border to Alaska - 1,700 miles - grueling - then at the BC-Yukon border they gave him 24 hours to get out of Yukon - drove 16 straight hours to make the deadline - see below).
https://doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=573792&page=1

However, the BC/Washington State border has been contentious since the attempted space-needle bombing 30 years ago; Canada let in virtually the entire Milan, Italy mosque after it was raided in 1994. It had been supporting the Islamic battalion fighting in Bosnia and the information from the Italian raid was one of the first indications of the extent of the spread of extremism - fighters going from Afghanistan, to Chechnya, then to Bosnia - with spill overs into Jordan (and of course by this time Bin Ladin was in Khartoum - still a virtual unknown). Vancouver subsequently became known as "Milan West."

However, 5 months later returning from Alaska crossing into Yukon, with his 870 in the truck this time, he spoke French to the border guard, told them about the Remington and was just waved through.

So it looks like it's location specific.

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Last edited by Argo44; 09/08/26 11:09 PM.
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