Quotes About Firearms

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

Quite honestly, I live in California in the off season. Going off to Green Bay is just like two different walks of life - I hunt, fish, practice with firearms. Back in California, it's spend time at the beach, go to the movies.

My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.

I was literally sued - drug through court for two years by the NRA and the gun lobby - all because, in my city, we refused to repeal an ordinance which said you couldn't shoot guns in city parks.

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.

learned in World War II that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen fired their weapons at an exposed enemy soldier.

for law enforcement firearms training to be legally sufficient, it must incorporate realistic training, to include stress, decision making

That's right: In the United States of America today, it is illegal for playing-by-the-rules, state-registered medical cannabis patients nationwide to bear arms. Whacked on OxyContin? Shoot away.

match for what looked like MAC-10s the bank robbers were toting, but what can you do? Sometimes you're just

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

My pistols, however, I always kept by me.

Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.

In Arizona, anyone over 18 can buy an assault rifle, at 21 you can get a pistol, and you can carry your gun, loaded or unloaded, concealed or openly, just about anywhere.

When I say I saw shotguns and pistols in the house, I saw them. It was what I grew up around.

I have a concealed carry, so I actually have a few guns that I keep. I keep them in my big, giant high-waisted fashion pants at all times, and I have two small pink pistols because I'm a woman.

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

Churchill on January 19 circulated to his Cabinet colleagues a draft bill which contained the following principal provisions: 1. An alien convicted of an offence was to be considered liable to expulsion. 2. Penalties for harbouring illegal immigrants to be increased. 3. Aliens to require special permission to carry fire-arms. He

I do support and believe in the Second Amendment. But I do think we need more background checks rather than less.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

I have been and will continue to be 100% pro-Second Amendment, without any exceptions, and will not support passage of red flag laws. Period.

I'm a lifelong strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I've owned and used firearms since I was 10 years old.

I'm supporting plans in Congress to fully ban bump stock devices and prohibit the sale of high-capacity magazines.