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Originally Posted by Windsweptcoast
How many handguns are stolen in this country from properly licensed owners and how many of the stolen handguns are then used for armed robberies and other gun violence? Let’s face it a handgun ban would at least reduce this problem.
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As pointed out above, that is wishful thinking and not how things really happen. In your example the supply of stolen Canadian guns would be reduced. This would create an increase in demand, and it would become more profitable to smuggle guns in from the US or elsewhere. So criminals would very quickly source their guns from someplace else, and the end result would be unchanged crime rates.
If the theory you offer worked, we should see reduced access to illegal drugs in Canada because we stopped domestic producers. How is that working?