Phil Gingrey Quotes

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

It's fine to have armed guards, but don't then tell everyone else they can't own a gun.

When you have a high-volume magazine or an assault weapon, you're not hunting deer or protecting your home; you're out to hunt people.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

Gun Control? You control your gun, and I’ll control mine.

If people have assault weapons, they're going to use assault weapons.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash — for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you

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.

We wouldn't take a gun away from a law-abiding citizen. We wouldn't take a gun away from anyone.

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

Obama and Holder would make it a felony not to submit to a rigorous grilling for anyone transferring any firearm anywhere in the nation including any now-legal private circumstances.

For me personally, I'm anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I'm definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we're definitely interpreting it wrong.

I was literally sued - drug through court for two years by the NRA and the gun lobby - all because, in my city, we refused to repeal an ordinance which said you couldn't shoot guns in city parks.

Red flag law is a general concept. There could be good ones and there can be bad ones. You should be against the bad ones, as I am.

Obviously a president can't rule as a king and ban all guns. But I think we need a president who is going to make sure that there is gun control and that people still feel like their freedoms are intact.

I think that there should be an assault weapons ban.

I take gun rights very personally.

Pat Toomey has worked to allow suspected terrorists to buy guns in this country, and that is just an outrageous position. Of all the kind of tough issues, this one should not be a tough call.

When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.