Importing an Eotech

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sf said:
Won't be long before US govt put pressure on ebay to stop any loop hole.
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even if that happens, ebay dont enforce their own policy very well, look at all the assault weapons parts listed. example, FN L1A1 barrel , also a L1A1 flash hider.
 
Same deal --however due to the Tritium they require an extra export layer of paperwork.


GUYS __ THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A DEALER NETWORK IN CANADA.
Wolverine, TSE, Questar, P&D etc do this regularily -- the bring in the items and deal with all the headaches.

Do yourself a favour and buy from your dealer
 
I couldn't even get a Spee-D-Loader ($19.99 USD) for my Nylon 66 from Cabela's. All it is... a long clear plastic tube with 8 chambers that holds 15 x .22 rounds in each chamber.

Costs to import would not be worth it unless many were ordered, then resold some of them.

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and this is why our dealers have to charge a bit more than the USA, and in some cases a lot more. Especially on one off or two off items. The risk of running the border with this stuff is too great. The USA does not look kindly on people messing with their laws, as stupid as they are.
 
Lazerus2000 said:
A while back, I unexpectedly was forced to spend a very interesting and educational evening at a US border crossing because I bought more than $ 100 US $$ in gun parts at an American gunshow, and tried to drive over the border back to Canuckistan with them. I was making no attempt to hide these bits ... I even had a list with me, all ready to declare them to Can Customs ... just like I'd done several times before with absolutely no hassle.

The pleasantness included being locked in cell, bounced off the wall a few times by two VERY big US Border Patrol agents, while a third hovered near the only door out, right hand twitching spasmodically just above his pistol grip. All the while several other agents of righteousness were stripping down my old Toyata Van to the bare metal [ literally ... they cut open the upholstery and crow barred off a lot of the interior panels ] looking for nefariousness.

My crime? I had a money belt [ with actual US $100 bills in it ... which apparently US BP does not like much ] and a bag full of gun parts including a few laser sights, a couple of plastic VPG, a folding stock, and a pneumatic buffer ... all of them absolutely/positively gun parts
BECAUSE -
they potentially could be attached to a firearm. Even a 6X48 gun screw meets this definition, if somewhere, some gun takes that thread and pitch.

None of these items individually would have been a problem, because none of these items individually was worth more than $ 100 US. However, in total they WERE worth more than $ 100 US ... which apparently the US border patrol has absolutely no sense of humor about.
At all.
[;{(


It took six months to finally come to resolution on this ... they kept my gun parts, and put me on the US border Patrol s**t list. Which makes for some interesting conversations at the border.

I went down to the US last month to import a motorcycle, and nobody looked at me funny this time, so maybe I finally fell of their list. But on our vacation to Mexico last year, my Lady was less than impressed with the extra attention me [ and HER luggage ] got from the agents of righteousness, while changing planes at US airports.

You have been warned ... no item that can be potentially attached to a firearm is exempt, and $100 in total IS the limit.

Don't you just feel so much safer now??
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One thing I am curious about. Why would the US guys stop you from coming into Canada. My wife and/or I cross the border 4 or 5 times a week. In the last 6 years not one US Customs Agent ever stopped us and asked to search our vehicle. This is not to say it doesn't happen. It happened to my wife once 7 years ago when the Idaho smokies were looking for a bank robber. They set up their road block 1/2 km from the border.

I live right on the border between BC and Idaho. And I mean sneezing distance. I can walk out right now and take a picture of the crossing.

Unless you are tagged by Homeland Security you shouldn't have any problems coming back into Canada.......Unless. Agents of various agencies take down the numbers of canadian licence plates at gun shows.

KevinB suggests that CBSA works with the US border agency in some issues. As a matter of security they do to a certain extent. Otherwise it is a #### you brother scenario.

There is a little cafe on the Canadian side of the border that US and Canadian guys frequent. Un-spoken rule. US guys wear guns, Canucks have tasers.

Do the US guys have permits to bring the tools of their trade into Canada?

I asked one of those guys from Idaho who happens to be a friend. He told me point blank. "I have a job to do and I won't do it unarmed"
 
Some times you can see the US guys looking through the cars lined up to return to Canada, if you see them then go away or try another crossing I guess.
 
So in other words, I better pack a couple of tubes of KY if I even THINK of buying that 40$ Walmart Simmons 4-12 X 40 scope I spotted that just has my TOZ-78 .22LR rifle written all over it the next time I go visit my cousin in Massena ? :confused:
 
RobSmith said:
So in other words, I better pack a couple of tubes of KY if I even THINK of buying that 40$ Walmart Simmons 4-12 X 40 scope I spotted that just has my TOZ-78 .22LR rifle written all over it the next time I go visit my cousin in Massena ? :confused:
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I'll put it this way. I'd rather do business with the US border guys. My wife has to deal with the canucks and US guys almost every day. Yanks, cool! CBSA, pricks!

With the exception of 2 of them, CBSA are rude and obnoxious. (Wannabees) I'm all for arming our border people but make sure they are all checked out. I personally know 2 of them that should never come within a mile of a firearm.

Sorta blows "Canadas First Line of Defence" right out of the water.:eek:
Rant off.:bangHead:

Any CBSA guys out there. Know Hop-Along? You get my drift.
 
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Lazerus2000,
Why do you use that retarded comment "Canuckistan", when you know damn well all your problems happened in the USA?

Wouldn't Yankistan make more sense?
 
crossing in to and out of the US sucks.

Land of the free my a$$. Those guys have got such a tight grip on everything after 911 that you can't even scratch your ass without having to file for a permit.


Thank God we live in Canada, even if we can't get machine guns and carry pistols around.
 
WTF,

I enter and leave the US w/ no hassles -- its the clowns at CBSA - that EVERYTIME pull me in for a search since I have IRAQ on my passport.

Everytime I leave the search area I really wonder where freedoms in Canada have gone.

*I will probably be double flagged now due to the post
 
I travel all over the world, and the ONLY place I EVER have problems is in YVR. Those #######s ALWAYS pull me or my wife aside for special treatment. ####, even Germany isnt as bad, and that's saying alot.
 
OK, here's the deal! We meet in The Detroit River with two fishing boats. I will trade you ONE EOTECH FOR FOUR 3.5 GAL TOILETS {illegal in USA} . There will be no money passed between us ,only goods.

The toilets will help us Americans only to have to flush once instead of 10 times with those damn water saving 1.6 gal EPA POS jamomatics. We will help our Northern friends hit their targets a little better. Its a WIN---WIN.





Can you imagine being in jail for toilet smuggling? Hey , maybe even a free trip to Cuba where we Americans can't even go unless we are going to be tortured!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an F'd up world. Hell, just buy a Swedish Aimpoint and laugh at those idiots down South with their plugged up toilets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Turf said:
"...One thing I am curious about. Why would the US guys stop you from coming into Canada..."
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...an excellent question.

I travel between Canada and the U.S. on a semi-regular basis and it has always been the border authorities for the country that I am entering who do the 'one-on-one' "...Purpose of your visit? Anything to declare?..." screening.

I have never interacted with CBSA when departing Canada, or U.S. border authorities when departing the U.S. ...in fact, normal traveller flow at any airport or landbased border crossings that I've seen aren't even designed to work that way.

If you were indeed detained by authorities of a country that you were trying to exit, there was nothing 'routine' about it ...you were probably flagged and being watched for.
 
Actually the US occasionally does put out checkpoints leaving the US.
I've seen 100% stops done -- I've never been searched -- but stopped and asked a few questions. They where stopping and talking to all vehicles at the exit point.
 
KevinB said:
"...Actually the US occasionally does put out checkpoints leaving the US.
I've seen 100% stops done -- I've never been searched -- but stopped and asked a few questions. They where stopping and talking to all vehicles at the exit point..."
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Personally, I've yet to encounter that.
 
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