Amendment Quote by Johnny Van Zant

“But in country after country—including the United States—cars kill far more people than do handguns.”

— Daniel Gardner

If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons…

— Johnny Van Zant

You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I…

— Muriel Bowser

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

— Brett Kavanaugh

One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once,…

— Josh Sugarmann

If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it.

— Pete Stark

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot…

— Carl Levin

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

— Ronald Reagan

I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.

— Joycelyn Elders

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

— John Adams

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

— Jackson Katz

Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over…

— Bob Costas

... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury…

— Josh Sugarmann

Handguns are a public-health problem.

— Josh Sugarmann

I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of…

— Barack Obama