Quotes About Firearms

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

I grew up hunting with Remington 7400s, which are semiautomatic rifles.

The N.R.A. has effectively turned itself into the Id of the Right.

Background checks are an important part of keeping guns out of the wrong hands, but they are only as good as the information in the database.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

I can today LEGALLY walk into a gun show, uh, pass the background check, and buy a dozen guns, walk out and sell them to criminal elements, who will use them for bad things.

nearly a hundred mongrel celebrants in the throng, the police relied on their firearms and plunged determinedly into the nauseous rout.

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

The last time Congress seriously addressed the notion of creating a way to keep track of America's guns was 1968.

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

Rather than trying to control or confiscate guns, it might be smarter to offer free, public gun-safety courses. In countries like Switzerland, every man within a certain age range is required to possess a gun and to know how to use it, and Switzerland has one of the lowest gun homicide rates in the world.

We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm?

If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

I support the Second Amendment just like everybody else. It's not about taking guns away. It's about doing very simple things that will save lives.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

Most firearm-related deaths in America are suicides.

Weapons were almost a birthright in the state of Texas; rich or poor, urban or rural, people like their guns. They were a rite of passage for many young men, a symbol of maturity, when they received their first .22 rifle, usually sometime in the second or third grade. But don't try to take them away. Never can tell when you might have to shoot a rabid armadillo or somebody climbing through the window of your seventeenth-story apartment in Houston.

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.