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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to governmental 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"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

Guidance for administrators

Standard set of restrictions

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

Individual restrictions

  • 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

Page restrictions


Clarifications and amendments

Templates

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic: