Canada, protection and bear spray.

[Texasgrillchef]

If any of this is incorrect, by all means correct me, especially if your a citizen from Canada.

In Canada, handguns fall into either the restricted, or prohibited category. Also very difficult to get a Transport License, and even more difficult to get a carry permit.

Even more so difficult for MOST NON-Residents.

Which leaves you for the most part in-protected from wild animals and bears when your in the best parts of what Canada has to offer visitors to see.

Protection apparently is left to having a long gun such as a rifle or shotgun, or the use of bear spray.

Here’s the problem for some people who are legally disabled. There are some who ALLERGIC to Bear spray, and thus it can kill them as fast as a bear would.

There are also some that can’t use a rifle because of its bulk and or weight due to a physical disability of some sort that they may have.

If you have both issues, then your in deep trouble if you want to Travel in Canada.

To top that off, If your from Alaska or trying to get there and don’t want to spend the almost $4000 to $5000 it costs to use the Alaskan Ferry system to get there from the Lower 48, you have to go through Canada.

Yes you can ship them to an FFL in alaska, but that requires you find a town and go into town that has one. Which in of itself can be an issue,

So are their alternatives to bear spray?

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

A slower, fatter companion smelling slightly of bacon grease?


Todd.

 

[jmr40]

Are you talking about visiting Alaska via Canada, or actually moving to Alaska and trying to get firearms into Alaska? To be fair I can't give you an accurate answer, but given the options you've laid out I'd either not go, or take my chances without a firearm. Or I'd fly over Canada. Gotta be cheaper than $4K to ride a ferry and it is possible to fly with firearms.

If I planned to drive from the mainland to Alaska via Canada I'd certainly look into what was involved to get a long gun approved to bring into Canada. But that's what I'd do. I understand your not able.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Are you talking about visiting Alaska via Canada, or actually moving to Alaska and trying to get firearms into Alaska? To be fair I can't give you an accurate answer, but given the options you've laid out I'd either not go, or take my chances without a firearm. Or I'd fly over Canada. Gotta be cheaper than $4K to ride a ferry and it is possible to fly with firearms.

If I planned to drive from the mainland to Alaska via Canada I'd certainly look into what was involved to get a long gun approved to bring into Canada. But that's what I'd do. I understand your not able.

Sound alike getting his firearms to Alaska with his own trip planned through Canada.

Todd.

 

[Texasgrillchef]

Are you talking about visiting Alaska via Canada, or actually moving to Alaska and trying to get firearms into Alaska? To be fair I can't give you an accurate answer, but given the options you've laid out I'd either not go, or take my chances without a firearm. Or I'd fly over Canada. Gotta be cheaper than $4K to ride a ferry and it is possible to fly with firearms.

If I planned to drive from the mainland to Alaska via Canada I'd certainly look into what was involved to get a long gun approved to bring into Canada. But that's what I'd do. I understand your not able.

Never said it was me, getting a long gun in or any gun they consider non-restricted is fairly easy.

yes one could fly but that doesn’t get your vehicle there and back either.

I just wonder what Canadians do! Lol probably move into the city and give up living in the wilderness when they become disabled.

Probably why so few Canadians live in the middle of nowhere and the majority of the population lives in cities!

I am actually surprised the US hasn’t made some form of Treaty to allow us to transport firearms in locked secured boxes if we declare we are driving to Alaska or to the lower 48.

Of all the forms, applications etc that you have to fill out. Not a single one actually lists the option of the fact your just driving through. They all “assume” your only going to one area and then going back home again. They don’t even give you options for additional provinces territories you might go to without filling out additional forms.

Really truthfully not much can really be done. At least here here in the states we have alternatives to bear spray. Well unless you live in California, or New York, then you might be in trouble!

 

[hso]

Best to ask our Canadian colleagues.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/