gun grabber

English

Noun

gun grabber (plural gun grabbers)

1. (informal, derogatory) A person in favour of gun control who wishes to confiscate the firearms of private citizens.
   • 2006, Arnold Grossman, One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic, page 114:

     Although his adversaries in the gun industry might characterize Ricker as a "gun grabber," or a total abolitionist of gun rights, the portrayal is far from accurate. In fact, he is a gun owner and a hunter.

   • 2018, Mark W. Smith, #Duped: How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting—and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back:

     And once the gun grabbers know who has the guns, then they know where to send the police to confiscate them; just like the Nazis did in 1930s Germany and New York City did with gun bans.