Not new. See the link above from 2020. Here is an excerpt:
Son talked repeatedly to the Canadian immigration service before departing and was told that entry was entirely up to the individual immigration office/officer he would deal with. He absolutely had to be in Alaska by mid-June. The only way to get his gear there was to transit BC and Yukon....no other way to go without the maritime highway. So to be on the safe side, he left the shotgun at home...not wanting to provoke. They got provoked anyway. (edit: they tore the truck apart then made him drive 40 miles back to the border to retrieve his passport). He was the only person trying to cross the border at that time so maybe they were just bored.
Anyway, everybody he saw on the route up-country was carrying so it wasn't necessarily an anti-gun thing .... just a problem with the immigration service. He made it but the race through Yukon with a fully loaded truck was sort of a cannon-ball run.
Last edited by Argo44; 09/08/26 11:55 PM.
