Flaekingur
Dec 8, 2008, 10:06 PM
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Re: [RogerTX] Advice on best vehicle for traveling in Mexico?
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Regarding bringing guns into Mexico, I had a friend from California who was a fanatic hunter. For a couple of years he smuggled his shotgun into Mexico in his motorhome then spent the winter hunting doves. We could not convince him how stupid this was but finaly his wife saw the disastrous potential and refused to go to Mexico unless he did it legally. The process, as his wife later explained it to me, he first had to obtain a hunting licence, which would specify what firearms were allowed and how much amunition. He then had to go to the Ejercita base in Nogales, Sonora, (sin las armas) and present la list of the guns and their serial numbers. They then gave him a permit allowing him to bring the guns in, for inspection, directly to the ejercita base, where they would check the serial numbers and issue him a permit to go with the hunting licence.
When he crossed the border, he showewd the permit for the two shotguns and amunition to the customs agent. He was travelling with a motorhome, towing a boat.. with his wife following behind in a pick up. They checked the guns out OK then asked to see the ammunition. That's when things started to go off the rails. They dicovered that he had three times the ammunition than what the permit ststed. At that point they started a thorough search of everything. Lo and behold, they find a rifle behind the seat in the pick up. He claimed he had been deer hunting a few weeks previously and had just forgotten about it. (He told me once he had 74 guns and I guess it would be easy to misslay one).In any case, they siezed averything, motorhome, boat, motor and pick up and hussled him off to the Nogales carcel, where he spent a misserable five months before managing to buy his way out.
So, if you routinely carry guns or ammunition in your vehicle stateside, make sure you double check that you haven't left one somewhere in your vehicle before crossing the border. On the US side of the border at Nogales, there are even signs reminding you of this.
And if other people drive your vehicle, make sure a roach or something stronger hasn't fallen under your seat.
ASll his applies to crossing into Canada also. Our jails here may be a lot more comfortable than Mexican ones but they are still not a place you want to spend time in.
Al
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