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gun-grabber

gun-grabber
 n.— «Davis, 54, got a TNT-like retirement gift from one right-wing newspaper. Atop a story announcing that Davis was going, the paper’s headline cried, with utmost objectivity: “Chief Gun-Grabber Retires.”» —“Moonshine Buster Reminisces” by Bob Levey Washington Post Aug. 10, 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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