Expanding background checks for all sales and transfers of firearms is simple, popular, and commonsense. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot. — James Spader Copy Share Image
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out! — Allan Rock Copy Share Image
I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. — John Adams Copy Share Image
My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America. — Steve Kanaly Copy Share Image
Being a firearms officer is incredibly highly scrutinised now, and I think it is one of the things that puts off quite… — Cressida Dick Copy Share Image
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until… — Steve Ditko Copy Share Image
I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
“That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon… — Edwin Arthur Hall Copy Share Image
After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners -… — Alan Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government… — Anne McLellan Copy Share Image
It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We must be open to considering who can purchase firearms and what kind of firearms are available for purchase. — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
“America is the home of rifle shooting, and there is no doubt that Americans are…more "rifle-minded" than the British.” — John "Pondoro" Taylor Copy Share Image
C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social… — Sharon Carstairs Copy Share Image
The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965]. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and… — Allan Rock Copy Share Image
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
“It’s a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person’s life.… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing,… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
“The field of firearms ballistics, like many applied sciences, is populated by scrupulous practitioners and passionate quacks. At times it can be… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image