Bringing scope across border

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Potasz

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Hey

Going to us can u bring a scope across border
With out headaches
They are easier to find there and same price

I just don't know if I should keep looking
Here or grab one off the shelf there?

Looking for Nikon 3-9 x 50 pro staff in camo
Thanks
 
Its an acronym for "I pay more because my government is spineless and my country only has the population of California" or something like that :)
 
Yeah just have to love the logic. So a US Vendor imports a Cheap Chinese scope with Mildots BOOM can't send to Canada! I order the exact same scope from China off Alibaba and it's ok........

Sure glad ITAR is stopping that evil 60.00 scope..........

Now find those missing suitcase nukes from the Ukaine....
Randy
 
Actually You can. I sent a message to the DDTC in the US. The stipulation is that you CANNOT import a scope that is Mil Spec (Military Specification), but there is no definition of what Mil spec is? I took the E mail with me to the US and asked at the US customs on my way across. They didn't know what constituted Mil Spec either, but a normal "hunting" scope wouldn't be classed as Mil Spec. I think bringing a Nightforce with turrets and a Mil Dot Reticle would definitely be classified as Mil Spec. The Leupold Muzzle loader scope I bought and brought back was no issue. The e mail did also specifically state that reloading components and ammunition were not allowed to be exported from the US. Here is a link to the US state Dept. Directorate of Defence Trade Controls (DDTC) website.
http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/
 
I bought and brought one in with the only probblem being the duty i had to pay. thats it. It is a sporting good. so thats what i claimed.
 
fatboyz said:
Actually You can. I sent a message to the DDTC in the US. The stipulation is that you CANNOT import a scope that is Mil Spec (Military Specification), but there is no definition of what Mil spec is? I took the E mail with me to the US and asked at the US customs on my way across. They didn't know what constituted Mil Spec either, but a normal "hunting" scope wouldn't be classed as Mil Spec. I think bringing a Nightforce with turrets and a Mil Dot Reticle would definitely be classified as Mil Spec. The Leupold Muzzle loader scope I bought and brought back was no issue. The e mail did also specifically state that reloading components and ammunition were not allowed to be exported from the US. Here is a link to the US state Dept. Directorate of Defence Trade Controls (DDTC) website.
http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/
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True but it's a bit of a gamble still. There's no telling which rocket scientist of a Customs agent you'll get. You get unlucky and Joe Schmoe feels like he's going to stand his ground rather be lectured by a puny civilian and reads "water and fog proof" and considers that good enough for him to be "mil-spec" and bye bye scope.

Reloading components would be cases, projectiles, primers and powders and does not include reloading equipment ie dies, presses, scales etc.
 
Potasz said:
Hey

Going to us can u bring a scope across border
With out headaches
They are easier to find there and same price

I just don't know if I should keep looking
Here or grab one off the shelf there?

Looking for Nikon 3-9 x 50 pro staff in camo
Thanks
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No, not simple and easy. Optical sighting devices for firearms are subject to export control. Some scopes are not exportable even if an application was made. Others may be exportable if the maker has got that particular scope model licensed for export, but if they don't bother, it can't go. If they did get it licensed for export then the exporter (e.g. a U.S. retailer shipping one out, distributor sending a box of them to a Canadian dealer, or you buying one to carry home to Canada) has to apply for a permit to export that particular one or dozen or however many are in the shipment. We don't hear of many people getting caught skipping the paperwork, but one is too many if you are the one and we know the U.S. authorities do watch for it and do take it seriously.

So by the time you find out if the one you want is allowed to be exported and then get the permit to do that, you usually feel it's worth paying a Canadian dealer the markup for having it done it already.
 
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