gun control

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   efforts to regulate or control sales of guns

   Broaderregulation

Questions about gun control

What does gun control mean?

gun control means "efforts to regulate or control sales of guns".

Is gun control a common word?

gun control is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.