If I move to Canada can I bring my hunting rifles and handguns?

yes, you’d need to check if any of your rifles are restricted or prohibited in Canada, also, you’d need to get a PAL card to possess and acquire any more guns after entering the country(you’d need a restricted firearms one for handguns), your handguns are either restricted or prohibited, depending on the make, brand and ammo capacity
prohibited firearms are not allowed to cross the border from the US, so if any of yours are, you need to get rid of them somehow if you want to enter and live in the country.
here’s a list that should help you:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/SOR-98-462/FullText.html
if your a gun lover, I seriously don’t advise moving to canada, our gun laws are too tight personally, we’re not even allowed to own guns that are semi auto variants of full auto weapons(semi auto AKs, AR-15s, etc.)

First off please don’t listen to stormgale, for someone who’s supposedly Canadian he/she has a very poor grasp of Canada’s gun laws. Herbli’s comments are also untrue, semi-automatics are perfectly legal and very common.

You will need a PAL with a restricted endorsement for those firearms (regular PAL covers non-restricted firearms, ie. your hunting rifles, restricted endorsement covers handguns and restricted rifles). Handguns chambered in .25 or .32 are prohibited, as well as handguns with a barrel length of less than 4.14″. You cannot import prohibited firearms into Canada and prohibited licenses are no longer issued.

Unlike what stormgale said firearms are NOT regulated by their “make, brand or ammo capacity”, magazines are regulated separately and there are no handgun makes or models that are banned by name. You can get legal magazines for any firearm or you could have a gunsmith pin your high-capacity magazines to a Canada-legal capacity. For the record all handguns are limited to 10 rounds, semi-automatic centrefire rifles and shotguns are limited to five rounds, and rimfire and manual-action (pump, bolt, lever, etc..) rifles do not have a magazine capacity.

As for stormgale’s comment about AR-15s and AKs he/she is partially correct. AK variants are prohibited by name apart from a few specific models (Valmet Hunter). AR-15s are perfectly legal to own and are very popular in Canada but they are restricted (put in the same class as handguns) so there are a few extra storage/transport regulations you must follow and you cannot hunt with them, they (like handguns) may only be fired at a bonafide shooting range, whereas non-restricted firearms can be fired at a range or on private property/Crown land.

For specific information on licensing, verifying and importing your firearms you should contact the RCMP CFP (Canadian Firearms Program), they’ll tell you everything you need to know and get you started.