[Rick Lee]

If I were considering bringing a gun into another country, it would not matter to me in the least what anyone in the US gov't. said about the legality of it - not State, not USCBP, not ICE, etc. I can't imagine why I'd even bring a gun with me into a country with a thoroughly corrupt police force and where guns are widely known to carry stiff penalties. But if I were going to do it, the Mexican Embassy is whom I'd be calling and asking for a get-out-of-jail-free card BEFORE I went. I'd want some pretty serious paperwork signed by someone whose word counted and I'd want it before I stepped foot in Mexico. Blaming this on anyone but himself is truly the American way.