Conclusion Quote by Chris Murphy

I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed aside by those folks who are absolutely beholden to the…

— Tammy Duckworth

The gun lobby whips up people and makes them believe that President Obama or I are coming for their guns. Well, that's ridiculous. And…

— Hillary Clinton

“The problem is that Republicans have purposefully torn down the validating institutions,” says the political journalist Josh Barro, a Republican until 2016. “They have…

— Kurt Andersen

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

— David Ignatius

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

— Clara Jeffery

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed…

— Steven Weber

If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.

— Chuck Todd

This is not a partisan issue. In fact, the vast majority of Democrats, independents and Republicans support universal background checks on gun sales.

— Dean Phillips

The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.

— Wayne LaPierre

When the NRA is funding your campaign and giving you, you know, millions of dollars, are you likely to pass gun legislation or support…

— Ana Kasparian

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

— Hillary Clinton

I understand that Donald's [Trump] been strongly supported by the NRA. The gun lobby's on his side. They're running millions of dollars of ads…

— Hillary Clinton