Those with valid reasons can bring firearms into Canada

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Céline Dostaler
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Visitors can enter Canada with firearms but they must abide by strict limitations. Some Americans don’t realize our country has much tougher gun laws when they cross the border. According to information from the Office of American Citizen Services, “an estimated 200 to 300 U.S. citizens each year … run into trouble for failing to declare their firearms. Vancouver is the single largest port of entry where this occurs, and it’s a good possibility many of these travelers are headed to Alaska.”

According to a news report, “Canadian border agents have seized more than 4,000 undeclared firearms that were smuggled into the country, the majority of them handguns,” from 2014 to 2020.

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