The national long-gun registry will live on for a few months to come.
The House of Commons won't get the chance to debate the bill to abolish the controversial registry before M-Ps break for Christmas.
The Conservative government tabled the bill in October, around the same time as other marquee Tory legislation was being presented.
While bills to end the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly and add 30 new seats to the Commons could be passed into law as early as tomorrow, the gun registry bill has yet to make it to a final vote
in the House.
The Tories say they just couldn't get around to everything