(Canada Border Services Agency photo)
Troublesome travellers are prompting more Canadian border officers to draw their guns, use pepper spray, and swing their batons.
An internal report shows so-called use-of-force incidents jumped 170 per cent over the past four years.
Canadian border officers have fired just one bullet since they started carrying guns in mid-2007.
It happened last summer, when an injured moose was put down on a B.C. highway.