This page documents and supplementsdecisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning acontentious topic.

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The Arbitration Committee hasenacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related togovernmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues (the "contentious topic"). Thecontentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Last modified 14 December 2022

Gun control is designated as acontentious topic.

Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:

• sitewide and partial blocks,
• topic bans and page bans (from the entire contentious topic, a subtopic, or specified pages within the topic),
• interaction bans,
• revert restrictions,
• word limits per discussion

• page protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the "consensus required" restriction,
• the "enforced BRD" restriction,
• word limits for all participants in a specific discussion

When alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following templatemust be used to alert them:

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|gc}}

When a page has active page restrictions (other than page protection), the following templatemust be used as an editnotice:

• {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|gc}}

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|gc}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|gc}}

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|gc}}

Talk page notice

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|gc}}

• Contentious topic summary pages