gun control

See also: gun-control

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gun control (uncountable)

  1. Laws or policies that restrict the possession, production, or use of firearms by private citizens.
    • 2012, Jill Lepore, "Battleground America: On Nation, Under the Gun", The New Yorker:
      Opposing gun control was also consistent with a larger anti-regulation, libertarian, and anti-government conservative agenda.
    • 2013, National Rifle Association of America, "Semi-Automatic Firearms and the 'Assault Weapon' Issue Overview", NRA Institute for Legislative Action:
      Gun control activists began campaigning against "assault weapons" in the late 1980s, after they realized that their previous campaign to get handguns banned had failed.

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