Regarding Don Jose & Sandman's answer, to "ask a consulate", does anyone here remember this incident?
Back in the early 1980s, Fisher had a publication that went our quarterly I think. In it, they used to have a question and answer column. Someone had written in to the editor, asking "Is metal detecting allowed in Mexico?" Fisher answered by saying "No. When traveling to Mexico, leave the detectors at home"
In the next issue of the periodical, several readers had written into the Q&A column taking issue with the editor's answer to the inquirer in the previous issue. They asked things like "Since when?" "Where did you get that information?" and "We've been going there for years and never had a problem. Detectors are a common sight on the tourist beaches!" Fisher answered the objectors by revealing where they had gotten the answer they published: THEY ASKED! Yup, they went to some Mexican bureaucrat, consolate, or something, and asked if metal detecting was allowed in Mexico. They told the readers "we were merely passing on what we were told". All I can assume is that, whomever they asked, must've been thinking in terms of historic monuments, exporting treasures, shipwreck salvor type laws, the pyramaids, blah blah. I mean, if you asked enough USA lawmakers/bureaucrats if detecting is allowed in the USA, some of them may also say "no", because they too are couching it in terms of federal parks, or ARPA indian stuff, etc.... Yet we all know we can detect here.
There are detector dealers in all the major cities in Mexico, INCLUDING Fisher dealers! Doh! Fisher knows they had dealers down there, yet gave that answer? What did they think was happening to the machines they sell down there
