i am quite confused, i think we should all chip in a little money and get the legal opinion of a lawyer. i really want to have a definitive answer to this question so that i may or may not continue checking out ammo prices south of the border and wondering if I can bring it here.
We don't need to chip in anything. The simple answer is, you can't do it, so stop checking out ammo prices.
I can tell you that at least with shotgun ammo, there are few deals.
I can also tell you that I ordered 10 firing pins from Brownell's using a US credit card on a US Bank, delivered to a US location. It came to about $130 US When the pins arrived there was a form stating that since my order exceeded $100, I could not take the complete order out of the US, so I left half the order in the US and brought the other half home.
Ineterestingly, even though I paid for it with a US credit card on a US bank, they still had my Canadian Address listed in the 'bill to' section.
I had never had anything to do with Brownell's before that time, but they still somehow found my Canadian Address.
The BATF scoured Brownell's credit card sales looking for Canadian credit cards delivered to US locations and gave them hell for filling orders over $100. BATF's position is that if it is sold to a Canadian regardless of where it is delivered to, it will eventually end up in Canada.
I shoot with a retired US Border Service agent in Florida. He was in charge of the Orlando Airport Border guards. He told me NO AMMO leaves the US unless you brought it in, or you have an export permit.
