I'm a first generation American, my dad is a Canadian who told me that he had the good sense to arrange his escape to America when he was 10 years old. He's 84 now and an American citizen. The only time he has been arrested was recently, when he traveled to Canada to go to the nearest Costco to his house and forgot he had a handgun in a duffle bag in the back of his pickup. Some freshly minted customs officer in bumfuck Alberta acted like he had caught a terrorist and cuffed him. A Mountie had to drive hours to deal with it and tried to talk the customs twerp out of the arrest but he would have none of that and insisted on keeping my elderly dad in custody. My dad eventually was released after getting a lawyer and paying a big fine. Lest you think it plausible that the agent thought my dad was smuggling a firearm to some criminal syndicate, the gun in question was a .22 rimfire derringer that you would have to put the barrel up against your target in order to hit it. Basically a total piece of crap.