Gagan Narang Quotes

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

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

The true gun safety advocates, as they have been for centuries, are the millions of members of the NRA and other training organizations.

I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.

While actors play with guns for make-believe, the guns themselves are by no means make-believe; they're real. Even when the actor is using blanks, there are all kinds of safety protocols to follow when shooting one at someone. Pulling the trigger is the easy part.

I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.

People who want to own a gun should have to pass a written exam that shows they know how to use the gun, that they’re intelligent enough and responsible enough to handle a gun.

The American and his revolver have become as much a national association as the Mexican and his machete…. The cowboys are very poor shots. The best shots in the world are here in New York. They are men who have carefully studied the revolver and its charges from a technical and practical stand-point.

I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control! If you're going to own a gun, you have an obligation to know what you're doing with it. When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. So I support waiting periods and training requirements for gun ownership, and I like the idea that is shouldn't be incredibly easy to get guns.

I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.

I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.

I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.

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

I grew up in - I personally grew up in a gun culture. I grew up in upstate New York where most families had guns for hunting, target practice, whatever. The vast majority of people I knew never used their guns for any crime.

I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.

I've been handling guns since I was a kid.

Honestly, it's alright that people are buying more guns. I just care that they are being safe individuals.

I shoot occasionally, but I'm no gun expert.

When I hold a gun, I know how to be sensible about it. I'm not holding it to wild out or just to shoot somebody because I'm mad at him. There's responsibility in buying that gun, and part of it is dealing with it like a man, and not dealing with it like an idiot, and getting behind iron bars for unnecessary reasons.

We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.