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tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 05:55 PM Aug 2016

Oops! Vacations end for two Texans who brought guns across N.B. border

SAINT JOHN, N.B. -- Two Texas men who tried to bring hidden guns along on separate Canadian vacations on the weekend have lost their guns, been fined and sent home.

Crown attorney Peter Thorn said the men, both retirees in their 50s from the Dallas area, came separately across the border with their wives at St. Stephen, N.B.

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He and his wife told a border officer they were not carrying weapons, but were pulled over for a secondary inspection that uncovered three handguns, a shotgun and pepper spray.

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They also denied carrying weapons, but during a secondary inspection admitted there was a handgun in their motor home's safe.
Thorn said Judge Henrik Tonning fined Do $1,700 and Chaffin $1,000. Their guns were destroyed, and both men were told to leave the country.


more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/vacations-end-for-two-texans-who-brought-guns-across-n-b-border-1.3032305


LOL!

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Warpy

(110,900 posts)
4. "Dadgummit! Don't you people know we feel plumb nekkid without our gunz?"
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 06:37 PM
Aug 2016

I hope this gets lots of publicity so gun humpers will stay home if they can't stand to be without their binkies. It will be cheaper.

whopis01

(3,467 posts)
11. How fucking stupid do you have to be to try to sneak guns across a border?
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 09:00 PM
Aug 2016

What's even crazier is that these are the same people that would be out of their minds if there was a story about someone crossing from Mexico into the US with a gun on them. They would be called it an armed invasion.

DFW

(54,050 posts)
12. If Rupert Murdoch were Canadian, the Royal Fox Noise would be screaming this:
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:41 PM
Aug 2016

"Armed incursion by foreign mercenaries out of uniform thwarted by vigilant mounties!"

Instead, our Fox Noise will probably spin it thusly: "Freedom-loving Americans robbed of their guns and 2nd Amendment rights by armed foreigners while on vacation!"

I am so pleased to hear that their weapons were destroyed. If they sue to recover them, I hope the Canadians hand them over the heaps of slag that they had paid good money for, intending to go kill something.

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