gun control

noun

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

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The most politically contentious part of the debate has been about gun control. Jens Ludwig, Time, 15 May 2025 Kelly also used her video to tout her record, particularly her work on a sit-in in Congress over gun control legislation and her efforts toward extending Medicaid for new mothers. Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 6 May 2025 Her lawsuit stemmed from an editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was wounded in 2017 when a man with a history of anti-GOP activity opened fire on a congressional baseball team practice in Washington. Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025 As the Crime Prevention Research Center points out, even taking numbers put together by a gun control group the University of Colorado academics cite, shows that victims and criminals were wounded at a rate of at most 1.56% of the 5.6 million victims claimed in this study. Andrew Pollack, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 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 4 Jun. 2025.

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