Definition of "gun control" []

• Regulation of the sale and use of rifles and handguns. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Then, during the Christmas holidays, after having traveled to Hawaii for an abbreviated five-day trip to visit my grandmother and reacquaint myself with Michelle and then-eighteen-month-old Malia, the state legislature was called back into special session to vote on a piece of gun control legislation."
• "As I better understood the likely proceedings, it was increasingly clear that many of the “nongovernmental organizations” (NGOs) orchestrating this gathering (such as the umbrella group International Action Network on Small Arms) actually had an agenda focused on domestic U.S. gun control issues."
• "Final production aircraft; all guns deleted except tail turret; fitted with APG-15 gun control radar system; 311 built."