Gun control

Quality:

Gun control - laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms. Article “Gun control” in English Wikipedia has 84.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 188 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.35 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Gun control” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Gun control”, its content was written by 455 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 819 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1190 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1997 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #165 in January 2013
• Global: #1911 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #194 in April 2013
• Global: #1036 in April 2013

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Gun control		84.1126
2	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		75.0952
3	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		55.4559
4	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		31.0059
5	Chinese (zh) 槍枝管制		29.2331
6	Catalan (ca) Control d'armes de foc		24.2823
7	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		20.7789
8	Vietnamese (vi) Kiểm soát súng		19.0579
9	Portuguese (pt) Controle de armas de fogo		18.8997
10	Arabic (ar) التحكم في السلاح		14.7741

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gun control		4 236 659
2	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		927 065
3	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		610 133
4	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		150 510
5	Chinese (zh) 槍枝管制		137 450
6	Simple English (simple) Gun control		17 538
7	Indonesian (id) Politik senjata		7 486
8	Arabic (ar) التحكم في السلاح		7 046
9	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		3 394
10	Korean (ko) 총기 규제		1 886

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gun control		8 708
2	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		1 871
3	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		1 218
4	Chinese (zh) 槍枝管制		1 209
5	Simple English (simple) Gun control		781
6	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		215
7	Korean (ko) 총기 규제		202
8	Arabic (ar) التحكم في السلاح		141
9	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		65
10	Portuguese (pt) Controle de armas de fogo		39

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gun control		455
2	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		104
3	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		101
4	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		83
5	Chinese (zh) 槍枝管制		31
6	Simple English (simple) Gun control		29
7	Indonesian (id) Politik senjata		4
8	Portuguese (pt) Controle de armas de fogo		3
9	Arabic (ar) التحكم في السلاح		2
10	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gun control		6
2	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		1
3	Arabic (ar) التحكم في السلاح		0
4	Catalan (ca) Control d'armes de foc		0
5	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		0
6	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		0
7	Indonesian (id) Politik senjata		0
8	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		0
9	Korean (ko) 총기 규제		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Controle de armas de fogo		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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