An illegal handgun was seized at the North Portal border crossing earlier this month.
According to the Canada Border Services Agency Prairie Region’s Twitter feed, officers at North Portal seized a nine-millimetre handgun from a Texas man on Aug. 12.
He paid a $1,000 penalty for failing to declare the gun.
The man was released upon completion of the examination and was allowed to continue into Canada, without the handgun, after paying a $1,000 penalty.
The handgun is classified as prohibited because of its short barrel length. Visitors to Canada cannot, under any circumstances, import prohibited firearms.
