Bringing a gun, staying out of trouble in Canada

As I recall someone with an FFL can ship and fire-arm to another person with an FFL. Which means you can hire a Gun-dealer to ship your hand-gun to another dealer, and pick it up from them.

Now, for rifles and shotguns... if you are going hunting, there are ways you can legally take them across the border.

Bare in mind the ammo limits, which were posted just before your post.