Corey Stewart Quotes

I don't think you need an AK-47 [assault rifle] to defend your family.

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

I got my first handgun license when I was 22.

If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel safe. If you didn't grow up with guns, if you don't know how to use them, then the thought that someone else has them makes your stomach churn.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

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

I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.

I have told myself that gun control isn't crime control. But more and more my argument in my own ears sounded threadbare.

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

I’m the NRA.

I have been a hunter all my life but I’ll be damned if anyone needs a 50 caliber machine gun or an assault rifle to hunt deer.

I see no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon.

Like automobiles, guns should require mandatory insurance policies.

If abortion is different because it’s about life and death, so too, potentially, are guns, yet we seem positively loath to examine people’s reasons for wanting to own them.... And unlike abortion, guns kill more than 32,000 actually existing people every year.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

The assault weapon ban in this country should be reinstated.

Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?

Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy; we have controls we accept on everything else in this society - except guns. Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns, most people will not even discuss restrictions.

Parents all over the country are using their right to keep and bear arms to protect their kids.

To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

I'm the original co-sponsor of an assault weapons ban.

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