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antihandgun

antihandgun adjective: prohibiting or restricting the possession of handguns.

Adjective

antihandgun (not comparable)

  1. Prohibiting or restricting the possession of handguns
    • […] 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...1988 July 8, Bryan Miller, “Gun Man”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of antihandgun

From anti- + handgun.

Questions about antihandgun

What does antihandgun mean?
Antihandgun means prohibiting or restricting the possession of handguns.
What part of speech is antihandgun?
Antihandgun is an adjective.

Words near antihandgun in the dictionary

  1. antihalation
  2. antihalitosis
  3. antihallucinatory
  4. antihalo
  5. antihamster
  6. antihandgun
  7. antihandling
  8. antihanging
  9. antihangover
  10. antihaplon
  11. antihaplons

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