Channing Tatum Quotes

I'm not a great hunter. But I have fired guns in the past, when I was growing up. But it was part of growing up where I lived. You go out hunting or target practice. They also taught you to respect guns.

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

I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.

I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just sport. The ones who believe they have a constitutional right to 100-round magazines to fight off I don't know what - a zombie apocalypse? - try to shut down dialogue with threats and other macho posing because of their flawed beliefs.

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.

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.

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.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

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.

Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

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

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

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.

I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time. I really don't understand why Americans can purchase guns so easily and why they use them for sporting purposes.

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified.

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