Top 238 Rifle Quotes & Sayings

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.

Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

The fact is that the AR-15 is a good rifle.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.... Pick up a rifle - a really good rifle - and if you know how to use it well, you change instantly from a mouse to a man, from a peon to a caballero, and - most significantly - from a subject to a citizen.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves. Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. It is constitutionally legal to own a shotgun or a rifle.

Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

I have a goal in front of me and that is to achieve a gold medal at the Olympics in air rifle shooting.

The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.

Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!

When shooting exploding rifle targets, check with local and state laws.

I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.

I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.

I'd rather people just call me by my name, Andy, than 'Red Rifle.'

Due to the fact that .375 H&H magnum ammunition is available all over the world, the .375 H&H becomes a very good choice of a plains rifle for Africa. I found that many of the 17 white hunters regularly employed by White Hunters Limited of Niarobi used a .375 for their medium rifle, and most all of them considered it ideal.

The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle.

Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one.

Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.

You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it at hand to meet situations that you do not anticipate. If you have the luxury of anticipating a lethal encounter, you pick up a long arm, either a rifle or a shotgun, but in that case you go on to the attack. Thus rifle shooting is offensive, and pistol shooting is defensive. Of course, life does not always duplicate theory, and there are exceptions to everything, but nevertheless the rifle is not a defensive weapon in concept.

...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

'This Is My Rifle' is a kind of tribute to Al Di Meola.

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

Gay People can’t do this. Women shouldn’t be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you’re attacking my rights.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

It's just unbelievable to me that the National Rifle Association has so much power.

Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.

When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a picture of this," and his rifle went off. And almost simultaneously, as his rifle went off, a halo of dust came off a sculpture next to me, and the bullet lodged in a tree. I dropped my camera in the realization that it was live ammunition. I don't know what gave me the combination of innocence and stupidity... but I never took cover.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.

I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.