Jeff Cooper Quotes

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

so many militia-men ... are not skilled in the use of the Rifle or Musket

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.

I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.

I always thought I was a good shooter.

If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman... Don't pray. Learn to use guns.

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

Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?' 'Don't you trust me?' 'Trust you? I barely know you.' Vittoria frowned. 'And here I thought we were newly-weds.

I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution to become part of the "well-regulated" militia, specifically to understand and perform well with the individual weapon currently issued to the regular establishment. . . . Thus one who has not qualified himself with the M-16 may not be considered to be a responsible citizen.

A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.