Originally Posted by mdkowals

Additional information is from attorney websites. One key piece of information - that the FBI NCIC database is not searched at primary inspection, but is searched at secondary inspection, comes from multiple posters who have claimed to be CBSA officers on both FT and Reddit. I could not find an official source for that, but did verify the posters weren't "trolls" via their other posts and the info in the above reference materials does not point to searching criminal databases at primary inspection.