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I would be cautious about that.

Unless you have a DSP-83 form with your name on it, any PVS-14 you find here in Canada that is US made will be grey market at best.

Taking them back into the states comes with a risk: you're technically planning to smuggle it out again by bringing it home with you, unless you have paperwork for the first time it left the States, and even then you might need something specific to take it out a second time.

People can be charged with violating ITAR pretty easily. The rules are designed to be flexible for prosecution, and are not enforced uniformly. You would be amazed at the kind of products that fall under ITAR controls. Technically anything with a picatinny mount qualifies.

Is it likely that you will be searched by a border services agent who knows the ins and outs of US made Night Vision paperwork? Not likely. In fact I'd call it extremely unlikely.

But that doesn't make it legal. Doing so is a calculated risk.

I have an international import certificate that allows me to bring certain things into Canada, but does not equal permission to take those same things out of the USA. It's messy.