antihandgun

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adjective

Prohibiting or restricting the possession of handguns

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Meanings

adjectiveantihandgun (not comparable)
  1. not comparableProhibiting or restricting the possession of handguns
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    […] thanks to an almost entirely unpublicized component of Oak Park's antihandgun ordinance, anyone willing to sign up with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as a collector and plunk down $30 for a Federal Firearms Owner's License can legally collect and hold virtually any kind of weapon she or he pleases for the next three years.

    1988 July 8, Bryan Miller, “Gun Man”, in Chicago Reader

Origin

From anti- + handgun.

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APA

antihandgun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antihandgun

MLA

“antihandgun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antihandgun. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antihandgun,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antihandgun.

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