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, 2026). The article contains 194 references and 24 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 2026 the article “Gun control” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Gun control”, its content was written by 476 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 850 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1415 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2306 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #165 in January 2013
• Global: #1922 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #194 in April 2013
• Global: #1067 in April 2013

There are 14 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, 2026 (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		84.1383
2	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		74.4525
3	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		55.3336
4	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		30.9554
5	Chinese (zh) 槍枝管制		27.9339
6	Catalan (ca) Control d'armes de foc		23.6019
7	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		20.5238
8	Vietnamese (vi) Kiểm soát súng		18.9238
9	Portuguese (pt) Controle de armas de fogo		18.8317
10	Esperanto (eo) Limigo de pafiloj		15.3413

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gun control		4 338 407
2	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		948 497
3	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		625 156
4	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		153 271
5	Chinese (zh) 槍枝管制		150 302
6	Simple English (simple) Gun control		16 860
7	Arabic (ar) التحكم في السلاح		8 109
8	Indonesian (id) Politik senjata		7 654
9	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		4 473
10	Korean (ko) 총기 규제		3 064

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		5 271
2	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		1 302
3	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		904
4	Chinese (zh) 槍枝管制		841
5	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		255
6	Simple English (simple) Gun control		104
7	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		90
8	Korean (ko) 총기 규제		73
9	Vietnamese (vi) Kiểm soát súng		24
10	Catalan (ca) Control d'armes de foc		17

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		476
2	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		106
3	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		104
4	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		84
5	Chinese (zh) 槍枝管制		33
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	Esperanto (eo) Limigo de pafiloj		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		3
2	Arabic (ar) التحكم في السلاح		1
3	Catalan (ca) Control d'armes de foc		1
4	German (de) Waffenkontrolle (Recht)		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Limigo de pafiloj		0
6	Persian (fa) کنترل اسلحه		0
7	French (fr) Contrôle des armes à feu		0
8	Indonesian (id) Politik senjata		0
9	Japanese (ja) 銃規制		0
10	Korean (ko) 총기 규제		0

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

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