gun control

gun control

See also: gun-control

English

Noun

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.

Related terms

• pro-control

Translations

law or policy restricting or limiting the possession of firearms by private citizens

Chinese: Mandarin: 控槍／控枪 (kòngqiāng) Finnish: asevalvonta French: contrôle des armes à feu m German: Waffenkontrolle f Russian: (please verify) контро́ль над (огнестре́льным) ору́жием m (kontrólʹ nad (ognestrélʹnym) orúžijem)

See also

• arms control
• gun rights
• pro-gun