How to Use anti-gun in a Sentence

anti-gun

adjective
  • To thwart gun-violence the chain had passed a tough anti-gun law with mandatory prison sentence.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
  • On Friday, anti-gun groups hailed the verdict as a long overdue reproach.
    — Kate Christobek, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Other anti-gun measures are to include stricter controls of gun owners and shooting ranges.
    — Jovana Gec, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • As part of the campaigns, the group organizes anti-gun violence vigils, forums and other events.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Were these anti-gun laws in the Old West effective in reducing gun violence?
    — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Tester has voted for Obama and Biden’s anti-gun Supreme Court justices and against pro-freedom justices.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Sep. 2024
  • On average, one person is killed with a gun every six hours in Illinois, according to the anti-gun violence group One Aim.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Planning Commission denied the permit after a heated hearing that brought out dozens of pro- and anti-gun-control activists.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Holzer has created public signage and projections for anti-gun, anti-violence and get-out-the-vote drives since the mid 1980s.
    — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • An anti-gun zealot, Vullo tried to use that power to pressure insurers that partnered with the NRA to sell insurance to its members.
    — The Editors, National Review, 3 June 2024
  • Gun safety was the topic of a recent rally at the Statehouse held by members of the anti-gun violence group Moms Demand Action.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Kelly cofounded a radical gun-control group promoting anti-gun liberals across the country, making Arizona less safe.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • His wife and mother of his child, would-be employers and mentors and a representative from anti-gun violence program Save Our Streets all wrote letters to the judge.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Hinds has also been involved in the Citywide Clergy Collective, an anti-gun violence initiative the mayor established earlier this year.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Harris said the administration will continue to fight for issues impacting communities of color, from reproductive rights to anti-gun and civil rights legislation.
    — Nikole Killion, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Hundreds flocked to the Church of the Messiah for its 17th annual Silence the Violence event, one of the largest anti-gun violence marches in the country.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2024
  • After the Uvalde school shooting in 2022, President Biden approved a sweeping and bipartisan anti-gun-violence bill.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • One congressional Democrat appeared to blame Trump for the shooting and a Democratic state senator used the shooting as an opportunity to advance his anti-gun position.
    — Bethany Blankley | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 July 2024
  • He is also required to go to the Atlanta area four times a year during his probation to give an anti-gang and anti-gun presentation at a school, Boys and Girls Club or similar organization.
    — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The rapper must also return to the Atlanta area four times during each year of his probation to make an anti-gang, anti-gun violence presentation at a grade school, middle school, or high school, or at an organization like the Boys & Girls Club.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The panel reportedly discussed effective community intervention strategies as well as gun violence in Quavo’s native Georgia and the power of art and culture in anti-gun violence advocacy.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 21 Sep. 2023
  • More than 1,300 of them have occurred in schools in the past decade, leaving students deserving of a nurturing education with trauma, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, an anti-gun violence advocacy non-profit organization.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The grants were allocated under President Joe Biden's signature Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, an anti-gun violence law signed after the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Ossoff declined to run for the seat again in 2018, but Lucy McBath, a national spokesperson for the anti-gun violence organization Moms Demand Action, whose seventeen-year- old son Jordan Davis was shot and killed in 2012, decided to run against incumbent Handel.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026

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