Quotes About Firearm

Then Chang fired. Full auto. Nine hundred rounds a minute. Impossibly fast. A brief blur of sound, like a manic sewing machine. Two seconds. A whole mag. Dirt stitched up in a line and a splinter of wood blew off the building.

The half-inch bullet in the Barrett chamber weighs a hair over two ounces. One minute it's stationary. A thousandth of a second later, it's doing nearly nineteen hundred miles an hour, leaving the barrel behind on its way to the target.

Yeah, well, I have my .38 to back me up in case he mistakes me for the weaker sex.

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

Magazines were new. The Gentleman's Magazine—the first periodical called a "magazine"—appeared in London in 1731. It offered "a Monthly Collection, to treasure up, as in a Magazine, the most remarkable Pieces."3 The metaphor is to weapons. A magazine is, literally, an arsenal; a piece is a firearm.

Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.

A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn't a bad word.

I would like to have my gun for protection.

It's double-action: You've got to cock it before you can fire.

If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

He set the photo aside, revealing the gun safe. He'd recently upgraded to a biometrics model.

was sixty feet off, but the bullet caught him in the top of the head, killing him instantly.

What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.

Theft of a firearm should be punished as a felony, plain and simple.

How many times must I tell all of you! Sky, ground, or target. Damn it, you don't point a gun at another person unless you are prepared to kill that person. He scowled at Ona. A careless accident could cost one of you a husband. I've told you from the beginning. The Oregon men won't accept a crippled wife. They insist on brides who are healthy and whole.

Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.

When I was a prosecutor, I got to shoot at the range so I could explain to juries how the firearm worked. You know, to prove intent or to prove that the person didn't accidentally discharge the firearm, I would have to learn everything about the firearm.

What's the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it's for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter, I'm impressed. Since we're not in Miami and you haven't a boat to hide the hacked-up bodies at sea, where are you keeping them? (Leta)

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.

The gun went off accidentally.

You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.

The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.