English

Adjective

hoplophobic ‎(not comparable)

1. (rare) Fearful of guns; hoplophobiac.
   • 1999: Vin Suprynowicz, Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993–1998, page 375 (Mountain Media; ISBN 0967025907, 9780967025902)

     Within days Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association — America’s largest gun-control outfit — showed up on Katie Couric’s smugly hoplophobic NBC “Today” show, “debating” all-guns-to-the-state Congressman Charles Schumer on a typically heads-they-win-tales-we-lose question: whether it is federal or only local authorities who should “mandate” gun locks.