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Son was traveling from Portland Or to Alaska for a 6 month sabbatical to complete a doctoral dissertation dealing with wilderness living, His Tacoma long bed was loaded. Because of conflicting stories about the border he left the Marine Magnum 870 at home, planning to return and fly back with it later.



The border crossing between Washington State and BC was deserted. The Canadian immigration gave him a hard time. When they asked if he owned a gun, they went crazy (even though they were at home) and tore the truck apart. They then asked if he had marijuana (it's legal in Wash state and BC)...of course he didn't. They finally let him across but gave him 4 days to get out of Canada...but didn't return his passport...he had to drive back 40 miles to get it.

The small Indian inhabited villages along the very sparsely populated route 37 Cassiar Highway were barricaded - foreigners could get gas - that was it. When he got to the BC/Yukon border a Yukon checkpoint was set -up...they were worse...they have him 20 hours to get from Whitehorse across the Yukon/Alaska border - he drove 16 hours straight to make it.

Crap treatment of a good guy with all the papers in order, letters from the university, etc. Be warned. These are strange times. He speaks native French and commented that when he crosses the Quebec frontier, the language is a Laissez-Passez. - not in BC.

Tell him we are proud of him

Also he has expanded his horizons on governmental grip.

Yes, Strange times

Mike

We have a friend that regularly crosses the border for work and family. He had been unable to cross for about two months, but got through on a recent weekend using some extenuating circumstance excuse. I don't think there's any reason to discuss firearms, once you show a DL, they probably know all arms that're registered to a person. Just say no when asked if there're any guns, the more elaborating without asking, the more interested the border folks become.

Why not call a few of the area FFL dealers and see if they'll accept from a private party. Except for the cost of mailing, they'd probably transfer the 870 to your boy for twenty bucks?

Is there a ferry?

I�m not interested in Canada. That wasn�t always the case.

Best,
Ted

Spent the extra $15 to get an enhanced license just in case I wanted to visit our northern neighbor since I don't have a passport. Beginning to think I wasted the money!

The Alaska ferry system runs from Bellingham, WA, to both Haines and Whittier AK. Not cheap to bring a car, but the trip is fabulous, whereas much of the Alcan highway is pretty dull spruce forest. On the ferry you never leave the US, so no issue with firearms.

Argo, what is he studying in AK?

On a side note, the road and weather conditions heading back south in six months might take a little considering.

For a Doctorate degree I figured your conveyance would have legs instead of wheels.
Sounds better than Ted�s tree thing though.


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All Alaskan Ferry's are shut down.

He's doing studies on Isolation. Has a cabin in Hope which will be his base as he kayaks, motors, hikes, 4-wheels to remote cabins and farmsteads to interview inhabitants. He commented that Alaskans are pretty suspicious of outsiders but he's been all over the world and hiked the length of the Cascades. Won a national Kayak championship. He'll be ok with them. Really good as a people person.

By the way, a few years ago, I was on a plane to Seattle for his marriage and sat next to a huge old guy with a poodle. Thought he was a - you know what - till I saw the Master Blaster wings on his forearm. The subsequent story - daughter in Alaska who owns a couple of lodges on the Iditarod trail - is pretty amazing and can be read here - 504th Parachute Infantry - jumped into Sicily at the age of 15...Inchon and Frozen Chosen in Korea...White-Star in Laos...CSM of 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam...
https://specialforces78.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1215-Sentinel-News.pdf

You can vote for the anti-gun Liberal Left Democrat Joe Biden and a few more Democrat Senators, and get the same treatment without ever leaving the USA.

On a related note... You won't ever see any Democrat nominees to the Supreme Court criticising their fellow Justices for failing to protect the 2nd Amendment. They are the ones who vote to restrict the Constitutional gun rights of law abiding citizens.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/thomas-...econd-amendment

But libtard fools like rocky mtn bill continue to support anti-gun Liberal Left Democrats. You can't fix stupid.