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Having run up the flagpole the possibility of a national handgun ban, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken it down heading into the Oct. 21 federal election. This session of Parliament ended with no new legislation.

That’s good because it ends, for now, the never-ending debate in Canada over banning handguns, a distraction from effective measures to combat violent urban street crime, an example of which the country witnessed again during the Toronto Raptors’ recent victory parade.

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Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction Minister Bill Blair, said if the Liberals are re-elected, they will look at banning “assault-style” weapons and giving municipalities increased powers to restrict firearms.

The Liberals would also consider even tougher storage rules for legal gun owners, more prosecutions of people who buy guns legally and then sell them illegally, and tougher border controls to combat handgun smuggling into Canada from the United States.