American with some questions

[blacksmithden]

Just one thing that popped into my mind when you said you plan on keeping your citizenship. A few years back, the US government decided that it had the authority to collect income tax from US citizens living and working in another country. I don't know the exact ins and outs of it, but it might be something you want to look into. The last thing anybody needs is to have their home government coming after them with a bill for 20 years of back taxes.

[harbl_the_cat]

Just one thing that popped into my mind when you said you plan on keeping your citizenship. A few years back, the US government decided that it had the authority to collect income tax from US citizens living and working in another country. I don't know the exact ins and outs of it, but it might be something you want to look into. The last thing anybody needs is to have their home government coming after them with a bill for 20 years of back taxes.

FATCA, FATCA, FATCA... the most Draconian piece of financial legislation any government in history has ever implemented.

Long story short - every bank on the planet that doesn't want to get gooned by the U.S. government MUST report to the IRS any U.S. citizens who hold an account with them.

Pray that Trump repeals that legislation, although it's pretty unlikely. That said, he'd probably make up for it by Making America Great Again and in the present time we live in, fewer Americans would likely become expats as the wheels fall off the rest of the world (including Canada) and who knows, Canada might accede to the U.S. as a consequence.

That said, to Elle308, welcome to Western Canada - really the only place in Canada to be with respect to Gun Ownership if you don't like being treated as a social pariah, getting SWATTED by jerk wad neighbors, having spontaneous visits from the police, registering your single shot .22 rifles, and having separate ATTs to take your handgun to the range, to the gunsmith at the range, and to a retail store next door to the range.

As a blatant generalization, the rest of B.C. outside of Vancouver seems pretty chill with respect to guns - they're almost Albertans. My guess is it has something to do with living in the mountains in the middle of nowhere as opposed to living on the coast where everything is on easy mode (except for buying real estate).

Also, if you're coming into Canada be VERY careful with respect to what you bring in. Our laws and regulations are ridiculously confusing, full of loopholes and contradictions that provide no value and make no sense, and the penalties for non-compliance of benign, harmless laws or regulations being reminiscent of despotic 3rd world dictatorships.

Case in point - bringing in a 10 round magazine "designed and manufactured" for an AR-15 rifle that fits in an AR-15 pistol is prohibited, carrying very stiff mandatory prison sentences, however bringing in a 10 round magazine "designed and manufactured" for an AR-15 pistol, even if it functions in an AR-15 rifle, is not... until some hot shot bureaucrat at the RCMP firearms lab changes his mind decides that it is.

Coincidentally, they tend to change their minds whenever the Liberal's hold Federal, although the Conservatives really aren't much better.