Little Kopit
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IMHO, All Canadians have a right to expect all visitors to respect Canadian laws and recognize that ours are different than in their home country.
All US citizens have a right to expect all visitors to follow US laws.
There is plenty of notice, plenty of websites, plenty of tourist pamphlets around to give potential travellers information about any country they are going to.
I really appreciate that those who aren't Canadian have also said similar things in this thread.
& I, I took the road less travelled by.
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winnietrey
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JRBOB, your posts 1 and 2 when looked at together, make ZERO SENSE.
In post 1, you describe Americans being "victimized" becuase they LIED to Canada authorities. Your second post has absoulty no relation to your first post. I again restate my IHMO. Full of CRAP
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StanleyandIris
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If you intend to go into Canada, do not take a hand gun along. It is very simple. If you have one with you ship it home before you cross the border. If you do not know how to ship your hand gun back home, leave it home. If you want to take a rifle or shotgun, research the regulations and permit requirements before you leave home.
I really do not feel sorry for the Dr., the family man, or the senior who failed to read up about hand gun laws in Canada before they tried to enter the country. The people of Canada live in relative peace because they do not have hand guns in their country and I don't blame them for wanting to keep it that way. Hand guns keep us all terrified and horrified here in the good ole USA. The Canadians do not have that fear and wonder why we put up with the horror.
Ok. Off my soapbox.
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Deen
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Fish 'n ' Grits wrote:I took a Remington 870 with an 18" Defender barrel through Canada this summer.I had the permit application all filled out, and when I got to the border, The customs agent checked it and signed it, and I was on my way. NO PROBLEM! Into Ak, back into Can. and back into the US. No one even wanted to see the shotgun.
I knew that handguns aren't allowed in Can. It's their country and their law.
Anyone who tries to slip a handgun in is asking for trouble. I agree, I don't like the law, but it IS a law in Canada. And the reason I choose NEVER to go to Canada again. If you go there, obey their laws or pay the price. I choose to stay away.
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ridgeback23
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StanleyandIris wrote:If you intend to go into Canada, do not take a hand gun along. It is very simple. If you have one with you ship it home before you cross the border. If you do not know how to ship your hand gun back home, leave it home. If you want to take a rifle or shotgun, research the regulations and permit requirements before you leave home.
I really do not feel sorry for the Dr., the family man, or the senior who failed to read up about hand gun laws in Canada before they tried to enter the country. The people of Canada live in relative peace because they do not have hand guns in their country and I don't blame them for wanting to keep it that way. Hand guns keep us all terrified and horrified here in the good ole USA. The Canadians do not have that fear and wonder why we put up with the horror.
Ok. Off my soapbox.
Iris
there are plenty of hanguns in canada!just check the news in toronto or vancouver for the weekly gang shootings.the criminals have plenty of guns and the only good thing being is the gangbangers like killing each other and for the most part leave the general public out of it.
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Doug and Cassi Glass
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Why should our hard-earned tax dollars be spent to make even bigger signs for these idiots who go into Canada with guns? They don't read the ones in place now, or the papers, or watch tv, or read rv magazines, or talk with other rvers.
Maybe these travelers who don't respect other country's laws are believers in NAFTA. With any luck they'll try the same stupid stunt going into Mexico. Then they'll reaqlly have something to whine, snivel, and bellyache about. That Canadian jail will look pretty good.
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KHJPHOTO
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Ahhhhhhhh yes. Gun Laws protecting the citizen!
Hey do the research, lots of handgun crime in Canada and it's growing.
Only the law abiding citizen is the victim. And do remember the police do not
stop crime - they only take the crime report! It is up to the citizen to take
responsibility for protection.
So, the question is: be safe in the USA or take a chance of being a victim in Canada?
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Little Kopit
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KHJPHOTO wrote:Ahhhhhhhh yes. Gun Laws protecting the citizen!
Hey do the research, lots of handgun crime in Canada and it's growing.
Only the law abiding citizen is the victim. And do remember the police do not
stop crime - they only take the crime report! It is up to the citizen to take
responsibility for protection.
So, the question is: be safe in the USA or take a chance of being a victim in Canada?
No, that has nothing to do with it. The thing is when you go to another country, you go by that country's laws. End of story.
The problem is that with any big country, there are people on both sides of the border who can't get that through their heads.
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Dixonmatco
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Personally I have always felt safe without a handgun or any other gun as I have never owned one ever.. Of course I am only 60 and have only been to almost every state in this country and most of Canada in my lifetime..
Do I think that those that own guns are bad or should not be able to do so? NO! Some, however tend to do stupid things with them. (Didn't our VP shoot one of his friends?) And it makes me very angry when a child shoots himself or a friend with a gun he found loaded in an unsecure location in his house.
I just think that the laws of any country should be followed if you plan on visiting there. If you choose not to, you will suffer the consequences.
And in Canada, the gun violence, although increasing, is much less common than here in the US, but you form your own conclusions as to why that is.
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traxtermax
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hsteinle wrote:...One more reason I'll be spending less time and money in Canada. so go ahead and fill up your 'cry towel' Sea Dog---I'll save as much money as I can going through Canada and spend it in Alaska.
Maybe you want to steer clear of New York too:
A Pennsylvania man planned a trip to Canada but while approaching the New York/Canada border, realized he was carrying his handgun (he had a PA permit to carry). Knowing that carrying a handgun in Canada would be illegal, he stopped at a New York State Police barracks to have them hold his gun until he returned from his Canadian trip.
The State Police confiscated the gun (it didn’t have a firing pin) and fined him $100. He had no idea he couldn’t carry a handgun in New York without a New York permit and he thought he did the right, responsible thing by turning the gun into the State Police—and considering the circumstances, it seemed to be a quick, honest way of solving the problem without consuming a lot of time—or so he thought.
The powers that be will probably waive the $100 fine and New York will return the gun to the guy who is now back in Pennsylvania but he has to have it shipped to a Pennsylvania dealer with a firearms license; and of course, that’s going to cost him some more money.
Now that hsteinle knows the “New York State, United States of America situation”, I guess we better prepare for state bankruptcy, since he’ll be spending little or no money here and that'll definitely put us over the brink. 
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