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I am new to this site and looking for some assistance. i am traveling to canada in a couple weeks, driving from colorado, and am looking to take my pistol with for everwhere I am legal and where I am not leave it in the trunk. Canada however is another story. I will be in canada for 3 days and then returning through the same place i entered (Blaine, Wa). I am looking for recomendations on wether or not there are any options for storage in the Us while in Canada or any other similar setup. surely someone else has tried something like this before. thanks in advance for the info

Nate
 
I am in the process of contacting a couple shops in the area. Anybody have any recomendations or other ideas? Thanks
 
Get you a po box in Blaine, Wa. strip your pistol, mail the recever (the part with the serial # on it) and insure it, and drop it in the mail and it will be waiting for you when you get back.
 
Get you a po box in Blaine, Wa. strip your pistol, mail the recever (the part with the serial # on it) and insure it, and drop it in the mail and it will be waiting for you when you get back.


I was hoping to travel home with it for the same reason I was taking it with me in the first place.
Thanks though, if I had to I could do that and have it for the first part of the trip and not the last part which is better than nothing.
 
Regardless of what you decide on your gun while you are in Canada, just make sure you have your passport before you go north. If you don't, they won't let you back in down south and the gun will be a moot point. :)
 
Be careful about leaving it at a gun store. Technically if a firearm is left in their shop for over a day they're supposed log it into their bound book. This is no big thing until you go in to pick it up and they can't release it to you unless you are a Washington resident. (You then may have to have it shipped to a FFL in your home State.)
You could leave it at a gunsmith for "repair or modification" (cleaning would count.) In this case, a 4473 is not required to pick it up, but I'm unclear about the logging into the book.
All I'm saying is it might not be as simple as it should be.......
I don't know if the bus or train stations have lockers anymore, but you might look around for someplace that does. (YMCA,etc.)
 
Get you a po box in Blaine, Wa. strip your pistol, mail the recever (the part with the serial # on it) and insure it, and drop it in the mail and it will be waiting for you when you get back
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DO NOT DO THIS! It is ILLEGAL to mail a handgun, unless you are a FFL dealer. Even if it is stripped, the serial numbered part (the reciever) is considered by the ATF to be a firearm. If it is discovered, you will lose the gun, and very likely be arrested, or at least investigated.
 
GET.

A.

PASSPORT.

BEFORE 1 JUNE.

YOU NEED PASSPORT TO GET OUT OF CANADA BACK TO THE GOOD OLD USA.

Canada is a nice place to be, hardly worth packing weapons up there. We have been up there into Ontario much times and unfailingly have enjoyed the hospitatiliy and good food.

If we went up there right today to visit again, the guns will be down at one of the shops in secure storage until we get back.
 
Why dont you give the Blaine PD a call, see if they have a place for such things. You certainly are not the first traveler with this problem, they will very likely be able to help you.
 
I travel to Canada quite a bit. I live in ILLinois and can not have a ccw. Every time I go to Canada I get asked at the border about haveing a firearm owner card in Illinois, and haveing firearms registered in my name in the state of Michigan where i used to live. Then the 3M$ question. Do you have any with you? and do you care if I check.

I always answer no and no. and that is it. Never been searched going into Canada, but I can assure you that they know
 
Canada is a nice place to be, hardly worth packing weapons up there. We have been up there into Ontario much times and unfailingly have enjoyed the hospitatiliy and good food.
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That's not the issue. He's wanting to be armed going to and from Canada, not IN the country.
 
If you're a LEO the US Border Patrol office where you cross should have courtesy lock boxes that you can leave your gun and ammo in while your in Canada. I don't know if they extend this courtesy to licensed non-LEO's. You should call and check.
Whatever else you do, don't take it into Canada with you or your stay could be much longer than 3 days and they get to keep your gun and gear.
 
Thank you to everyone's input. I hadn't thought of calling the police, but I might consider it. I will definitely ask lots of questions as far as getting my gun back. Keep the ideas coming and thank you again.

Nate
 
Get a hold of a gunsmith or gun store, as indicated above, to hold it for you. I did that the last time I went to Canada up by Spokane. The fellow stored it for free and was very nice about holding my rifles and pistol. I offered him $40 to store it but he said free was fine.

If you store it at a shop, and they let you leave it for free it'd be nice if you bought something from them on the way out :)
 
I've been to Canada a bunch of times (forgotten how many times). Every time I've made the trip, I've stopped @ the last rest area before the border & buried my gun in the woods back behind the restroom.

My problem is..... I have permenent short term memery loss & I keep forgetting where I've put all the maps showing the dig sites. :banghead:
 
I'm a Canadian and even I get asked if I have firearms when I go back home to Canada... Everyone gets asked...

Then I ask the Canadian border guard what they're packing... They carry Glocks BTW...
 
Rent a bank safety deposit box, if you bank at one of the big outfits chances are that they have a branch along the border and most of the work can be done at your home branch.
 
If you're a LEO the US Border Patrol office where you cross should have courtesy lock boxes that you can leave your gun and ammo in while your in Canada. I don't know if they extend this courtesy to licensed non-LEO's. You should call and check.


When I worked on the Mexican Border we did this for LEOs on official business or not officially for guys from the SO we knew. If you know somebody there you wouldn't be asking this question but don't expect a LE agency to become keeper of your gun while you're in Canada.
 
DO NOT DO THIS! It is ILLEGAL to mail a handgun, unless you are a FFL dealer. Even if it is stripped, the serial numbered part (the reciever) is considered by the ATF to be a firearm. If it is discovered, you will lose the gun, and very likely be arrested, or at least investigated.
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Please check facts


http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/faq2.htm#b9
(B9) May a nonlicensee ship firearms interstate for his or her use in hunting or other lawful activity?

Yes. A person may ship a firearm to himself or herself in care of another person in the State where he or she intends to hunt or engage in any other lawful activity. The package should be addressed to the owner. Persons other than the owner should not open the package and take possession of the firearm.


1. When shipping out of state (sale, trade, gift, or donation), you must ship to an FFL.

2. FFL not required when shipping to a repair center.

3. You can ship a firearm to yourself without using an FFL.

4. Shipping long guns via USPS registered mail (insured) is recommended.

5. Frames or receivers of firearms are "firearms" as defined in the law and subject to the same controls as firearms.
I was hoping to travel home with it for the same reason I was taking it with me in the first place.
Thanks though, if I had to I could do that and have it for the first part of the trip and not the last part which is better than nothing.
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Marco,
you misunderstood, you mail it to yourself at the Po in Blaine, Wa
you stop and pick it up when you return across the border
 
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