gun rights
Speech parts
1. gun rights - Noun
2. gun rights - Adjective
Meaning
gun rights pl (plural only)
The entitlement of individuals to own and carry guns.
gun-rights
Alternative spelling of gun rights
Alternative names
gun-rights
Examples
A federal judge sided with the city on Monday in a lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights groups.
Abbott has said he wants the roundtable discussions to include lawmakers, educators, students, parents, gun-rights advocates and survivors of the November church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that killed two dozen people.
In a dissent in the 2019 gun-rights case of Kanter v. Barr, Barrett argued that a conviction for a nonviolent felony in this case, mail fraud shouldn’t automatically disqualify someone from owning a gun.
The Virginia Supreme Court’s decision came a day after gun-rights groups sued to overturn the ban that Gov. Ralph Northam issued earlier this week, citing what he called credible threats of “armed militia groups storming our Capitol.”
Their tactics included the creation of fake accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers that targeted African-Americans, anti-immigration activists and gun-rights supporters, among others.
In the United States, gun-rights activists fear registries are only the first step to confiscation — and research on their effectiveness in the U.S. is limited.