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A customer at Wanstall's Hunting & Shooting compares handguns after Canada's government introduced legislation to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns, as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada May 31, 2022. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier

(Reuters) -Canada's government introduced legislation on Monday to implement a national freeze on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns.

The new legislation comes just a week after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in their classroom in Uvalde, Texas.