Border guards say they seized a U.S. Army-issued rocket launcher and two inert hand grenades from two Louisiana men at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie last month.
The Canada Border Services Agency says that on July 3, two people from Louisiana crossed the Peace Bridge from Buffalo into Fort Erie.
Border agents say the two men did not have any accompanying documentation with them to show that the rocket launcher, a disposable one-shot model issued by the Canadian, American and several other NATO armies, was unusable.
They also had nothing to prove that the two hand grenades were inert.
Niagara Regional Police emergency task force officers and Provincial Weapons Enforcement officers were called to the scene and found the weapons to be unusable.
Border agents seized the weapons and made the men pay a $1,500 fee before allowing them to proceed into Canada.
Throughout the month of July, border agents also seized 13 handguns and 9 over-capacity magazines from U.S. residents seeking to enter Ontario from one of seven land road crossings in southern Ontario.
In all instances, the firearms were seized and the travellers were denied entry to Canada.
