Claire McCaskill Quotes

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

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

The American Rifle Association is one of the most powerful lobbies in America. But it wouldn't be possible unless they had the support of people.

The NRA is funded by weapons manufacturers, and those same manufacturers know that they stand to lose some business if we pass common-sense gun legislation. As a result, the NRA contributes money to politicians to ensure that gun control never happens.

I support an assault weapons ban, and I'll tell you why. We already have one in California, so I don't support doing anything above what we do in California.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

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.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

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.

Congress is in the grasp of the National Rifle Association and the religious right.

The National Rifle Association are a bunch of extremists.

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

My position on guns is the same position I've had for a long, long time. That position is that I don't line up a hundred percent with the NRA. I don't see eye to eye with the NRA on every issue.

There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.

Reinstating the federal assault weapons ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004 would prohibit manufacture and sales, but it would not affect weapons already possessed. This would leave millions of assault weapons in our communities for decades to come.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.

The NRA has become financially dependent on more and more guns being sold - especially the expensive ones. In turn, the NRA has stated that its top legislative priority is to protect gun makers by advocating for legislation that benefits them.

The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.

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