gun control

noun

: regulation of the selling, owning, and use of guns

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There’s even the possibility that California’s call for a gun control confab could be added to the COS efforts for a convention dealing with vastly different issues. Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2025 Sandy Hook Promise, meanwhile, has grown from a local effort to change gun control legislation into a national leader on gun violence prevention and advocacy. Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2025 Carney had commissioned a focus group of Latino voters in McAllen, in South Texas, and made two unexpected findings—the voters wanted less gun control and more border security. Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 The leading cases declaring the doctrine were the work of Justices Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O’Connor, curbing efforts of Democratic administrations to conscript local officials to the causes of gun control and environmental protection. George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gun control

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First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of gun control was in 1964

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“Gun control.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20control. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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