Undeclared guns a costly mistake for visitor

CHIEF MOUNTAIN — It’s a reminder that guns are better left at home by visitors to Canada, or declared at the border.

A Minnesota man found that out the hard way Monday, July 3 at the Chief Mountain border crossing in Waterton Lakes National Park. Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency found four handguns, one of them loaded, in luggage inside the box of the man’s truck during a routine search.

The guns, a .45-calibre revolver, a .50-calibre revolver, a .40 calibre pistol, and a .45 calibre pistol, had not been declared.

Not only does the man lose the four guns, which will be destroyed according to CBSA policy, but he had to pay a $4,000 penalty just to get his vehicle back. CBSA says it was seized because it was used to unlawfully import goods.