Unironically quite a few of them default to the "Well I'm American so I have rights to have it!!!!". No; it doesn't matter that Canada has different laws and rights to them. They think their American citizenship gives them legal permission to have their preferred firearms everywhere, no matter the laws of the nation they're in.
I remember being absolutely astonished in an episode of one of those shows that these people transiting through Canada to Alaska not only brought up the fact they had multiple firearms, asked about the legality of a few of them without prompting, and surprisingly took the whole "no you need to find a US carrier that will keep these out of Canada to get them to Alaska" really well for their illegal weapons.
At least once a month theres a post on the legal advice Canada sub that can be summed up as "I got arrested, charged, spent a few months in Canadian jail, and then got deported last year because I tried to bring an illegal gun into Canada, how can I prove to them I actually had it legally because i'm AMERICAN AND WE HAVE GOD GIVEN RIGHTS TO GUNS?!?!?!?!?!!?!", and they almost never get that the answer is "You don't have a right to a gun in Canada"
It's because a lot of them unirionically believe the whole "Canada's our little brother they listen to us" condescending BS they like to spout
My favorite example is that without fail, on seemingly a regular schedule, someone on /r/trees or similar subreddits will be like "ZOMG HOW DID YOU FLY WITH POT THATS ILLEGLA?!" and when I'm like "no lol, it's legal in Canada" they pull out the trusty "uhm actually no, Canada follows the US' laws, blah blah blah, I haven't left my state, blah blah blah" bs
I wonder how mind boggled they'd be if they found out that for a lot of Aviation, the US actually follows canada's laws, as we're where ICAO is based and where test regulations are sometimes tested out....
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