Editing Gun control (section)

==Terminology and context==
{{See also|Small arms trade|Small arms and light weapons}}
Gun control refers to domestic and international attempts to regulate, and harmonize the regulation of, the private and industrial manufacture, trade, possession, use, and transport of a class of weapons typically identified as [[small arms]]. This class of arms commonly includes [[revolver]]s, self-loading [[pistols]], [[rifle]]s and [[carbine]]s, so-called [[assault rifle]]s, and some categories of [[machine gun]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unodc.org/documents/organized-crime/Firearms/ITI.pdf |title=International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapon |date=February 25, 2013 |website=unodc.org |publisher=United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |access-date=February 14, 2014 |archive-date=2020-11-11  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111202349/http://www.unodc.org/documents/organized-crime/Firearms/ITI.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Definitions of Small Arms and Light Weapons |url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/weapons-and-markets/definitions.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619030929/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/weapons-and-markets/definitions.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 June 2011 |date=April 15, 2013 |publisher=Small Arms Survey|access-date=February 10, 2014}}</ref>

In the United States, the term ''gun control'' itself is considered [[Political polarization in the United States|polarizing]] and [[politicized]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/word-choice-and-gun-culture/423108/ | title=How 'Gun Control' Became a Taboo Phrase | website=The Atlantic | date=11 January 2016 | access-date=29 March 2016 | author=LaFrance, Adrienne | archive-date=2017-01-17  | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117075444/http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/word-choice-and-gun-culture/423108/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Many gun control advocates prefer the use of terms like "gun-violence prevention", "[[gun safety]]", or "common-sense regulation" to describe their objectives.<ref>Ball, Molly (January 2013). [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/dont-call-it-gun-control/267259/ Don't Call It 'Gun Control'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417074045/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/dont-call-it-gun-control/267259/ |date=2021-04-17  }} ''The Atlantic.'' Retrieved: September 24, 2016.</ref> Topics of gun control and gun rights is often considered with more prevalent of discussions in the United States then other countries, as it is more heavily debated there then anywhere else, However still quite prevalent in other countries such as [[Canada]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rogers |first1=Zachary |title=Gun sales surge in Canada after Trudeau proposes gun 'freeze' |url=https://cbs6albany.com/news/nation-world/gun-sales-surge-in-canada-after-trudeau-proposes-gun-freeze-handgun-firearm-prime-minister-justin-control-second-amendment-rights-ottawa?photo=2 |access-date=12 May 2025 |publisher=CBS |date=7 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref>