Canada solutions needed

[The Big D]

Huh?

Hope you mean BUFFALO. Boston is a long way from Niagara Falls.

Be safe.

We will be facing the same situation later this year in traveling to Boston and back. We want to jump over the border for a day to see Niagara Falls, and plan on locking our carry guns in a the gun-vault from our truck in our hotel room.

 

[Doug M.]

^ Considering that they will be coming from Kansas to Boston, NF is a relatively short side jaunt. However, unless you are LE and thus covered by LEOSA, you can't POSSESS a handgun in NY, let alone carry it. Even if covered by LEOSA, you are not exempt from the (oh gag me) "SAFE" act, unless you are a fed or NY officer (active or retired).

Back to the original inquiry, one poster advised: "how about burying it in a waterproof container just dont forget where. or just dont bring it at all im sure you will not be going to any high risk areas. or at least you hope your not good luck have fun on trip".

WRONG. There are only "unknown risk" areas; some with higher odds. The better answer, if a hard choice has to be made, would be to skip going to Canada if you can't find a way to store the gun.

 

[Frank237]

We will be taking a road trip to Montana and I would like to carry on the trip. Here is the snag. We would like to pop over the Canadian border for less than a day, just a few hours really, and I know I can't take the gun. Would a PD hold it? I hate to get them involved as it might be hard to get it back. Would the border crossing personnel hold it? Better just to leave it home?

How are you coming through MT? I'm near Helena and Great Falls. I'd happily HOLD it for you or can probably assist in some way.
I'm retired from the Hwy Patrol and I've left my sidearm at US Customs offices at the border a few times headed up to Waterton Park in Canada.

FN in MT

 

[Thunderhawk88]

Hope you mean BUFFALO. Boston is a long way from Niagara Falls.

Be safe.

Nope, I mean Boston. Born and raised there, so we're planning a road trip from Kansas to Quantico Va. (I was stationed there), then a day or so in DC, up to Boston, then out through upstate NY, visit Niagara Falls, then wind our way home.

 

[Mcwsky09]

We will be facing the same situation later this year in traveling to Boston and back. We want to jump over the border for a day to see Niagara Falls, and plan on locking our carry guns in a the gun-vault from our truck in our hotel room.

I live outside of Cleveland Ohio which is only a few hours from Buffalo and would be happy to hold a fellow forum members firearm for them while they go to Niagra Falls. Not sure if you planned to take the gun all the way through NY State and into Mass so might be easier to leave it here than to back track from NF too Cleveland then back to NY.

 

[george minze]

Skip Canada...Perfect answer....Don't spend any Yankee money there and don't go....They have very strict laws about handguns...We have to obey their laws if we cross the border....Best answer is just don't go..The people in Montana are great folks....Keeping a non owned gun would be somewhere in their laws ..Probably>>> Just might cause some well meaning Montana citizen a legal problem...I don't know that but....Gun shop would be out as as soon as they take your handgun they then would have to fill out the federal law received hand gun receipt as if you traded it It then becomes theirs by rule of law and how would you get it back??......I really don't know.....You never know what circumstance could come up. Check with the Montana Attorney Generals office.......Prior to leaving....Or as I said forget Canada...The US Customs office would be great if they would do it....I imagine that would be at THEIR DISCRETION..GOOD LUCK!

 

[Practical]

In this day and age you are lucky you are able to get a gun back from the manufacturer, gunsmith or FFL without going through a background check. In NY we are on the way to background checks for every transaction involving firearms.

You guys in free states are blissfully naïve of how bad it can and will get.