Canadian Guns

[pypes]

I recently landed a grail gun from Georgia that I could not find up here in Canada after several years of looking (S&W 1066) After factoring in the currency exchange, shipping and handling charges and duty it was more than I would have liked to pay but hey...now I own the only one up here!
I'm wondering what everyones attitudes would be about buying a hard to find gun from Canada and having it imported into the U.S.?

 

[Arik]

I know of someone who did it. Not from Canada though and it was a rifle so it had to be demilled before being imported. Not easy to do. I think he waited 6 months and had lots of paperwork

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[DCWilson]

I don't mind red tape and paperwork if it is necessary to get something I really want, but I would imagine there is probably an exasperation limit past which I would find that I don't want something as much as I thought I did.

I don't think there would be any exasperation limit for something like a large-knob K-38 Masterpiece or a 1946 Mexican. It's possible there might be one or two of each somewhere in Canada. Three? I doubt luck stretches that far. There aren't even more than a few to be found in the States.

 

[Texas Star]

With proper provenance, I might import Dudley Doright's or Sgt. Preston of the Yukon's service revolvers.

Seriously, people did import CZ-75's via Canada or West Germany back when Czechoslovakia was still a Communist country, with a whopping 55% duty here on guns from there. But if you bought it in a Western country, it was cheaper.

The first CZ-75 I ever held was brought in that way by a famous custom knifemaker.

 

[pypes]

Thanks for the replies guys. I wasn't thinking so much along the lines of one of a kind guns, more like S&W 650 with box and both cylinders, 625-3, Colt Python etc...