Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 Laws, policies, practices, or proposals designed to restrict or limit the possession, production, importation, shipment, sale, and/or use of guns or other firearms by private citizens. 2 (cx attributive English) Of, pertaining to, or support of regulation that limit the production, ownership, carry, and transfer of guns by individuals. 3 # oppose to unlimited gun ownership and carry. 4 # (label en US) Belief that the Second Amendment protects a limited right.
WordNet
n. efforts to regulate or control sales of guns
Wikipedia
Gun control (or firearms regulation) refers to laws or policies that regulate within a jurisdiction the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. The main purpose of gun control is to regulate who in a jurisdiction is to have access to a firearm, and to attempt to prevent the use of firearms in criminal or other acts of violence, and in suicides and accidental shootings, as well as in acts of terrorism or political violence. Laws vary greatly around the world, with some countries, such as the United Kingdom, having very strict controls while others, such as the United States, having relatively few restrictions (although policies vary from state to state). Jurisdictions that regulate access to firearms typically restrict access to only certain categories of firearms and then to restrict the categories of persons who will be granted a firearms license to have access to a firearm. Even in jurisdictions with strict gun controls, illicit access to firearms still takes place.
Proponents of gun control generally argue that widespread gun ownership increases the danger of gun violence. Opponents of gun control and advocates of gun rights argue that gun control does not reduce crime, violates individual liberties, and reduces the ability of citizens to defend themselves.
Usage examples of "gun control".
There was even a town in central Georgia where they'd passed their own local version of gun control, an ordinance requiring the adult population to go about armed.
Booth was doing admirably with the gun control, primitive as it was.
It can be to gun control what radar and the automated highway were to traffic control.
The prize: their own free territory, a nation of their own, free from gun control and Jews and Blacks and welfare claimants and federal taxes and interference .
Guns were bought at Bubba's Gun Shop, inherited from relatives, passed off among neighbors and friends and purchased second-, third- and fourthhand from and by citizens who were fuzzy on the details of gun control.
Linking pizza to after-school sports and public prayer, the TV commercials and newspaper ads called for swift apprehension of the culprits and stricter gun control everywhere in this wild and woolly nation.
If you want your head blown off, elbow your way into a crowded bar and mention gun control.
The last time Florida voters were given a voice on a gun control law, it passed by a landslide.
You were opposed to the death penalty and loudly in favor of gun control.
He didn't swerve an inch from his course, but flung his Camel at the nearest machine, and at two hundred feet gripped his gun control savagely.
Birdies left thumb rocked the gun control from main to coax while his right hand expertly teased the joystick to bring the pipper onto his targets.
Birdie's left thumb rocked the gun control from main to coax while his right hand expertly teased the joystick to bring the pipper onto his targets.