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Gun violence in the United States
Gun violence in the United States: firearm deaths, injuries, and crime measured by CDC and BJS data. Over 48,000 deaths in 2022, mostly suicide and homicide; nonfatal violence down 72% since 1993; RAND evidence on gun policies.
Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990
Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, codified at 18 U.S.C. §922(q), a federal law banning firearm possession within 1,000 feet of schools; struck down in United States v. Lopez (1995) under the Commerce Clause and reenacted in 1996 with an interstate-commerce nexus.
Gun-type fission weapon
A gun-type fission weapon, also called a gun-type nuclear bomb, is a design that fires two subcritical uranium masses together, used in the Hiroshima bomb Little Boy.
GUN4-like
GUN4-like (GUN4 family, InterPro IPR037215): porphyrin- and bilin-binding proteins of cyanobacteria, algae, and plants that stimulate magnesium chelatase, the first committed step of chlorophyll biosynthesis, with orthologs and paralogs distinguished by a conserved LxNxLR motif.
Guna (city)
Guna, a city and municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India, headquarters of Guna district in Gwalior division; district HQ since 5 November 1922, formerly Isagarh district; 180,935 residents (2011).
Guṇa (गुण)
Guṇa (गुण), also called Triguna, is a Sanskrit term in Indian philosophy, chiefly Sāṅkhya and Yoga, for one of three constituents of nature: sattva (intelligibility), rajas (activity), and tamas (inertia).
Guna 369 (గుణ 369)
Guna 369 (గుణ 369) is a 2019 Telugu action drama directed by debutant Arjun Jandyala, starring Kartikeya Gummakonda and Anagha. Based on an Ongole incident, released 2 August 2019 to mixed reviews, now on Netflix.
Guṇa and doṣa
Guṇa and doṣa (गुण and दोष) are the paired categories of poetic merit and defect in Sanskrit poetics, central alongside rasa and alaṅkāra, with ten guṇas listed by Bharata.
Guna Caves
Guna Caves, formerly Devil's Kitchen, are dangerous bat-infested chambers between the Pillar Rocks near Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, renamed after Kamal Haasan's 1991 film Gunaa and closed to entry after fatal falls.
Guna Caves rescue
The 2006 Guna Caves rescue at Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu (Devil's Kitchen): Subhash Chandran of Manjummel, Kerala fell into a deep pit and was pulled out alive by friend Siju David after police gave up; basis of the film Manjummel Boys.
Guna chant tradition
The Guna chant tradition is the ceremonial chanting of the Guna people of Panama and Colombia, in which trained male chanters perform fixed texts for curing, history, and rites.
Guna people
Guna (Dule, formerly Kuna), Indigenous people of Panama's Caribbean Guna Yala archipelago (formerly San Blas); won autonomy through the 1925 Guna Revolution and Republic of Tule; matrilineal society, mola textiles, comarca self-government, 2024 Gardi Sugdub climate relocation.
Gunaa (குணா)
Gunaa (குணா) is a 1991 Tamil psychological romance directed by Santhana Bharathi, starring Kamal Haasan, Roshini, and Rekha, with Ilaiyaraaja music. A Diwali release that initially underperformed, it became a cult classic, gave Guna Caves its name, and was revived by Manjummel Boys in 2024.
Gunaah (गुनाह) (TV series)
Gunaah (गुनाह) is a Hindi-language Disney+ Hotstar revenge thriller (2024–2025), the Indian remake of the Turkish drama Ezel, starring Gashmeer Mahajani, Surbhi Jyoti, Zayn Ibad Khan, and Darshan Pandya in two seasons.
Gunabhadra
Gunabhadra (Chinese: 求那跋陀罗, 394–468) was an Indian Buddhist monk and major translator of Buddhist scriptures into Chinese during the Liu Song dynasty, arriving in Guangzhou in 435.
Gunabhiram Barua
Gunabhiram Barua (গুণাভিৰাম বৰুৱা; 1837–1894) was an Assamese writer and social reformer who wrote the first modern Assamese play, Ram-Navami, and is counted among the founders of modern Assamese literature.
Gunadasa Amarasekara
Gunadasa Amarasekara (ගුණදාස අමරසේකර), born 1929 in Galle, Sri Lanka, is a Sinhala poet, novelist, and literary critic known for the novel Yali Upannemi and pioneering the Jathika Chinthanaya movement.
Gunadhya
Gunadhya (गुणाढ्य) is the traditionally credited author of the Brihatkatha, a lost great tale in the Paishachi language; tradition makes him a minister at a Satavahana court.
Gunaga Vijayaditya III
Gunaga Vijayaditya III (గుణగ విజయాదిత్య తృతీయ) was an Eastern Chalukya king of Vengi who ruled from 849 until his death in 892, rising from Rashtrakuta feudatory to overlord of the Deccan.
Gunahon ka Devta
Gunahon ka Devta (गुनाहों का देवता) is a 1949 Hindi novel by Dharamvir Bharati, set in Allahabad, centered on the unspoken love between Chander and Sudha.
Gunakama Deva
Gunakama Deva (गुणकामदेव) was a king who ruled the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal in the tenth century, remembered above all as the founder of the city of Kathmandu.
Gunalan Kamalini
Gunalan Kamalini (G Kamalini), born 2008 in Madurai, is an Indian left-handed wicketkeeper-batter and legbreak bowler for Mumbai Indians (WPL, Rs 1.6 crore signing), Tamil Nadu, and India Women, debuting in T20Is in December 2025.
Gunamala
Gunamala (গুণমালা) is a short Assamese devotional book by the saint and playwright Srimanta Sankardev, condensing the Bhagavata Purana into six chapters, traditionally written in a single night at the court of King Naranarayan.
Guṇamati
Guṇamati (गुणमति; Tibetan ཡོན་ཏན་བློ་གྲོས) was an Indian Buddhist scholar-monk of the fifth or sixth century, a great commentator on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa whose commentary survives only in quotation.
Gunan
Gunan (古南) is a subdistrict and the government seat of Qijiang District, Chongqing, China, at 29.02°N 106.65°E. It had 97,841 residents at the 2020 census, was renamed Gunan in 1935, and is an old urban core undergoing renewal.
Guṇaprabha
Guṇaprabha (गुणप्रभ) was an Indian Buddhist monk and commentator, dated to about 550–630 CE, whose Vinayasūtra abridged the Mūlasarvāstivāda monastic code and became Tibet's principal Vinaya textbook.
Gunar Kirchbach
Gunar Kirchbach, German flatwater canoeist (born 1971, Bad Saarow), KC Potsdam; 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold in C2 1,000 m with Andreas Dittmer (3:31.870), two world titles, later coach at SC DHfK Leipzig.
Gunasekhar (గుణశేఖర్)
Gunasekhar (గుణశేఖర్), also Gunasekhar Karri, is a Telugu film director, screenwriter, and producer born 1964 in Narsipatnam, known for Laati, Ramayanam, Choodalani Vundi, Okkadu, Rudhramadevi, Shaakuntalam, and Euphoria.
Gunavarman
Gunavarman (गुणवर्मन्) was a Kashmiri prince who became a Buddhist monk, advised the king of Java, and was invited by Emperor Wen to China, where he translated Buddhist texts before dying in 431.
Gunboat
A gunboat, or gunvessel, is a small shallow-draft warship built for shore bombardment and patrol in coastal waters and rivers; it gave its name to gunboat diplomacy.