Via Fox News:
Gun rights advocates are urging the Canadian government to drop charges against a retired U.S. soldier who says he mistakenly brought a gun into the country due to a faulty GPS directions during a weekend getaway.
Louis DiNatale, the former Army soldier, says he forgot the gun was inside his wife’s car, so when he was asked by a Canadian border agent when the last time he had a weapon on him, he responded, “Earlier that week,” The Los Angeles Times reported. The border agent searched his wife’s car and located a .380 handgun.
“It was an honest mistake,” DiNatale, told Postmedia News Wednesday from Louisville, Ky., where he works as a paralegal. “There’s not even a traffic ticket in my background. Why would I come to Canada to bring a small weapon to smuggle in?”