Jim Gilmore Quotes

They [The National Rifle Association] not only punish people who do not follow their line, but they dehumanize them.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

You can have 90% of the people for gun control, but the National Rifle Association will still prevailed. They go out and work harder.

We all know the NRA's position: guns don't kill people—grapes do.

Having a firearm in your home, not only doesn’t protect you, but it puts you at 300 percent more risk that someone in your family will be killed in a homicide and 500 percent more likely that someone in your family will be killed by suicide…. The NRA didn’t like the fact that the research, very legitimate, high quality research, showed that having a gun in your home put’s you at more risk and it doesn’t protect you.

You can’t take the hard-line NRA position. That’s a loser.

The National Rifle Association has an extensive enemies list, and I am, frankly, insulted that I am not on it.

It's clear to me that the NRA isn't going to stop trying to meddle in making this a safer state.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

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

One of the many embarrassing truths about the debate over the right to bear arms that neither side wishes to admit is that gun rights ideology is the illegitimate and spurned child of gun control.

A powerful lobby [the National Rifle Association] dins into the ears of our citizenry that these gun purchases are constitutional rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.

I'm completely opposed to selling automatic rifles. I don't see any reason why they ever made semiautomatics. I've been a member of the NRA; I collect, make and shoot guns. I've never used an automatic or semiautomatic for hunting. There's no need to. They have no place in anybody's arsenal. If any SOB can't hit a deer with one shot, then he ought to quit shooting.

The National Rifle Association are a bunch of extremists.

A man with a gun may be a "potential murderer" and the man who wants to destroy it may likewise be a "potential murderer," but in neither case is he such an enemy of society because of his mere possession of or opposition to firearms.

…while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns

An armed society is a polite society.

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

I'm for the constitutional right to bear arms. I'm a hunter, and so is my son.

Always remember Rahm Emanuel and those of his ilk who are opposed to our fundamental civil right to keep and bear arms when you donate to NRA-ILA or the NRA Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.