Sedalia Dave Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Check your bags thoroughly when traveling out of the US. This includes driving into Canada or Mexico. https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/american-tourist-faces-12-years-for-loose-ammo/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Even just loose brass, damaged unusable brass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 ▲ this is just one reason I never plan to leave the U.S. ever again (probably could say that about leaving The Republic, too) The last time I left I ended up with people shooting at me--trying to kill me! Almost succeded three times. This boy is staying home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 48 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Even just loose brass, damaged unusable brass Also true for former felons in USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creeker, SASS #43022 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 I had a Chevy HHR (GM version of a PT Cruiser) but mine was a panel van. Meaning no windows in the rear doors or sides behind the doors. No rear seats either. This was (to me) the nearly perfect CAS transport vehicle. Big flat surfaces for gun cart and equipment and very hard to see anything from the outside - so I felt much more comfortable parking it for lunch or WalMart after a match. I sold it to a Mexican friend of mine who decided to take it to Mexico as a gift for someone who owned a little store. He drove it down and dropped it off at a little body shop so they could paint it and letter it for the business. Apparently when they began pulling the interior and plastic cargo panels - they found something like 3 loaded shotgun shells, a dozen live 38 specials (and a few random 9mm rounds as well) plus more than 20 empty 38 casings. My friend called me and asked if I knew all this was in the car - I responded "no" but not really surprised. Shotgun shells fall out of belts, brass bags dump over, plastic ammo boxes pop open. And in a car used for nothing else than gun range visits - who bothers to dig too far into the plastic bits when something gets dropped? He was very lucky he did not get caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 At the rate we're "progressing," could be california in the not-too-distant future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 A friend of mine coming back from Mexican had his van inspected at the Mexican checkpoint in Tijuana. He went to Mexico to buy leather products to sell at a swap meet. A Mexican police officer told him to open the rear of the van and lo and behold there was one .22 LR cartridge. They unloaded his van and stripped it. Seats, panels, everything. They found nothing else. He was given a $100 fine, I believe and told to go home and don’t come back. He was told if they had found more ammo he would have gone to jail for a long time. He had to put his van all back together by himself and someone lifted his tool box. He never went to Mexico again. Me, I would have never gone to begin with. Too many horror stories about Mexico. EXIT: Also, I never use range bags or backpacks for travel. That is just asking for trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Heck, I was coming home, to Canada and was almost subjected to a strip search by my own Canadian Borders Services(?) because I was wearing a firearm related ball cap!! They emptied all my luggage and really went over the lining. Meanwhile, huge shipping containers, originating in the PR of China, where ammunition, clones of ARs, SIG, Walther, Browning, etc. are made by NORINCO they don't have enough staff to search more than 1/4 of 1% of the containers entering our country. (Nothing to see here, Move along) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 3 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: Heck, I was coming home, to Canada and was almost subjected to a strip search by my own Canadian Borders Services(?) because I was wearing a firearm related ball cap!! They emptied all my luggage and really went over the lining. Meanwhile, huge shipping containers, originating in the PR of China, where ammunition, clones of ARs, SIG, Walther, Browning, etc. are made by NORINCO they don't have enough staff to search more than 1/4 of 1% of the containers entering our country. (Nothing to see here, Move along) A coworker of mine was wearing a suit on a work related flight from Los Angeles to Sacramento. He had this tie clip that looked like a Colt 1858 revolver. He got treated like he was a big threat with that little tie clip. He was interrogated long enough to miss his flight. He had to wait 2 or 3 hours for another flight. The tie clip was a gift from his kids. The TSA brain-trust took it. I found another one at Knott’s Berry Farm and bought it for him so his kids wouldn’t know it was taken from him. Knott’s Berry Farm is an amusement park that used to be based on an Old West theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Been true of Canada for a long time. You've got to make sure you've scoured every nook and cranny to make sure a shotshell from last season's duck hunt isn't in the spare wheelwell, etc..... It's carried to a ridiculous extreme, but it's their country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Total BS! Ridiculous!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 22 hours ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said: ▲ this is just one reason I never plan to leave the U.S. ever again (probably could say that about leaving The Republic, too) The last time I left I ended up with people shooting at me--trying to kill me! Almost succeded three times. This boy is staying home I feel the same about Arizona. I'm not even all the comfortable outside of Yavapai County. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Once when flying (domestic), my backpack got flagged in X-ray. Turned out to be a wired computer mouse. But they also did a "residue wipe" on the strap. It was positive for "something." After some discussion, figured out it might have been because I had the backpack for lunch and such when a friend introduced me to black powder muzzle loading a few weeks prior to this flight. I was not taken to a room for interrogation or anything but I barely made it to boarding on time. Since it turned out to be trace amounts of explosives residue, no idea why they asked a bunch of drug questions. I do hear Mexico has no sense of humor on spent casings; went there once years ago and no particular reason to go again. For some reason, the populace is basically disarmed while the police travel in groups and packs with AR15s. Apparently so do the criminals. Yet law-abiding citizens go unarmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 I went to the airport to meet a friend during a short layover about 14 or 15 years ago. We were going to meet at airside and decide what to do from there, probably an airport bar if I had to guess. It was cool for Florida, so I grabbed a flannel, that I hadn't worn in a year or so, before I left. Got out in the parking garage, the wind was blowing pretty good, so I put on the flannel and went to security to go to airside...oops, there's one piece of .30 carbine brass in my flannel pocket. Didn't get any funner from there. Long story short, missed my friend's short stop, got hassled and ended up being a real pita. I can't even imagine if this happened in another country. Made me more aware. Leaving the country these days, not hardly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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