Top 147 Firearms Quotes & Sayings

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

My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

As combat infantrymen and special operators, we received thousands of hours of firearms training.

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'

Americans have a right to obtain firearms for lawful purposes.

Medical marijuana users are now lobbying for the right to carry firearms. Because no one is a better shot than a stoned old man with glaucoma.

It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.

I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.

Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.

It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.

My kids were completely out of control, while I was working fifteen hours a day plus weekends. I screamed a lot, something I'm not particularly proud of, but it was that or firearms.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly there are examples of countries where the people remain relatively free after the people have been disarmed, but there are no examples of a totalitarian state being created or existing where the people have personal arms.

I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming.

As a firearms owner myself, I'm very sympathetic to the concerns that people like me face every day.

No one should be allowed to purchase more than two firearms a month.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

Expanding background checks for all sales and transfers of firearms is simple, popular, and commonsense.

Every week, we read about horrific tragedies resulting from children who play with firearms and accidentally shoot themselves or their family members.

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

The knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.

Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

I would like there to be an entity, a person with some authority, to interact with government, with officials, to advocate on behalf of firearms owners.

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

Here are the ingredients of a tragedy: untreated mental illness, a society where life is cheap and crime is glamorized, and a ready supply of firearms.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

If the U.S. refused to take part in the U.N.'s international gun registry, other nations could potentially ban their domestic firearm manufacturers from exporting firearms to the United States.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.

I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking.

It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?

The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence.

The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms.

I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'

Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.

Sorry, I get a little excited when I talk about firearms.

I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric of minimal restrictions on individuals.

More than safeguarding someone's life, firearms safeguard the freedom of a people.

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.