KETCHIKAN \u2014 Canadian officials are asking Alaska residents to leave their guns stateside before traveling.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Border Service Agency seized about 300 undeclared firearms from travelers in 2015, with more than half coming from travelers crossing into Canada from Alaska, The Ketchikan Daily News reported (http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ZfUsOT).<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of these travelers faced criminal charges and\/or a monetary penalty that could have been avoided by simply declaring the guns,\u201d read an announcement from the agency last week.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s gun laws are stricter that those of the United States in general and much stricter than Alaska\u2019s laws with most handguns outright prohibited in the country. Canada\u2019s border police require all guns be declared and visitors with allowed weapons must have a \u201cvalid purpose\u201d for importing the firearms and have the required paperwork. Valid purposes can include in-season hunting, use in competitions, repair, re-enactments and moving through Canada to another destination.<\/p>\n
If import requirements are not met, declared firearms can be seized. In that case a receipt would be issued for the weapon and the carrier given a \u201creasonable amount of time to present the correct documents to the CBSA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KETCHIKAN \u2014 Canadian officials are asking Alaska residents to leave their guns stateside before traveling. The Canadian Border Service Agency seized about 300 undeclared firearms from travelers in 2015, with more than half coming from travelers crossing into Canada from Alaska, The Ketchikan Daily News<\/a> reported (http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ZfUsOT). \u201cMany of these travelers faced criminal charges and\/or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11714"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}