Seavette at a strange place-Bimini, Bahamas

[gofastsandman]

Danny you`re welcome to join me anytime. I did my time in the drug rodeo of my youth and then some. I finally learned how to wash my feet and tie a double windsor.

[Snookerd]

Amen brother

[Fr. Frank]

Mossberg makes a nice SS version of the model 500 in 12 ga.

I used to live in the Bahamas, so allow me to offer some advice here. DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT take an AK47 into the Bahamas unless you are a member of the Law Enforcement community, or have diplomatic immunity, PERIOD. The maximum penalty for illegal possession of a firearm is Life in prison.

You can legally own, license, and keep a .22 or shotgun in the Bahamas, but you cannot keep a high-powered rifle.

As a tourist traveling on your own boat, you can legally own and declare and keep a shotgun on your boat while cruising the Bahamas from the USA, as long as you sleep on the boat and never spend the night on shore. If you have a firearm on board, you may also never leave the boat unattended, without someone on it who traveled to the Bahamas on that boat.

In actual practice, the RBDF doesn't really care if you have a shotgun, even if you don't declare it, as long as you follow the above rules. If they board you and find it, they will simply put a plastic seal on the action of the gun and tell you to have the seal removed when you clear Bahamian customs to go back to the USA. You are permitted to remove the seal only for self-defense against piracy, which you must promptly report.

There are only two places in the Bahamas where you can have a center-fire rifle in your possession: North and South Andros Islands, and then only during a declared and approved hunt for feral hogs. Otherwise, they must be kept in storage at the local police department, as must any licensed handguns. A violation of Bahamian gun possession laws can get you a year in Fox Hill, and then deported, never to return. The prison at Fox Hill was originally constructed in the late 1800's, and so is quite primitive. Not a nice place.

And here is the bad part, when you get back to the USA, you will be arrested AGAIN, for failing to declare your weapon with US Customs upon leaving the USA, for which you can get up to 5 years in prison, although the norm is probation with adjudication, never to own a modern firearm again.

Stick with the shotgun. (BTW, you can have one shotgun for every person on board)

[lost2a6]

Mossberg makes a nice SS version of the model 500 in 12 ga.

I used to live in the Bahamas, so allow me to offer some advice here. DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT take an AK47 into the Bahamas unless you are a member of the Law Enforcement community, or have diplomatic immunity, PERIOD. The maximum penalty for illegal possession of a firearm is Life in prison.

You can legally own, license, and keep a .22 or shotgun in the Bahamas, but you cannot keep a high-powered rifle.

As a tourist traveling on your own boat, you can legally own and declare and keep a shotgun on your boat while cruising the Bahamas from the USA, as long as you sleep on the boat and never spend the night on shore. If you have a firearm on board, you may also never leave the boat unattended, without someone on it who traveled to the Bahamas on that boat.

In actual practice, the RBDF doesn't really care if you have a shotgun, even if you don't declare it, as long as you follow the above rules. If they board you and find it, they will simply put a plastic seal on the action of the gun and tell you to have the seal removed when you clear Bahamian customs to go back to the USA. You are permitted to remove the seal only for self-defense against piracy, which you must promptly report.

There are only two places in the Bahamas where you can have a center-fire rifle in your possession: North and South Andros Islands, and then only during a declared and approved hunt for feral hogs. Otherwise, they must be kept in storage at the local police department, as must any licensed handguns. A violation of Bahamian gun possession laws can get you a year in Fox Hill, and then deported, never to return. The prison at Fox Hill was originally constructed in the late 1800's, and so is quite primitive. Not a nice place.

And here is the bad part, when you get back to the USA, you will be arrested AGAIN, for failing to declare your weapon with US Customs upon leaving the USA, for which you can get up to 5 years in prison, although the norm is probation with adjudication, never to own a modern firearm again.

Stick with the shotgun. (BTW, you can have one shotgun for every person on board)

I brought my 12 gauge shotgun with me, declared it with customs and left it on the boat with no problem. From what I'm told is they don't want you to take it off of the boat. They didn't ask if I was staying on the boat. The Florida sportsman forum has a good bit of info on this.

[Snookerd]

DO NOT take an AK47 into the Bahamas unless you are a member of the Law Enforcement community, or have diplomatic immunity, PERIOD.

Frank, this was the 1970's with the AK47. I don't believe the laws were the same then.......