Assault Rifle Quotes

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

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

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

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

I spent a career carrying typically either an M16 or an M4 Carbine. An M4 Carbine fires a .223 caliber round, which is 5.56 mm at about 3000 feet per second.

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.

Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.

In Arizona, anyone over 18 can buy an assault rifle, at 21 you can get a pistol, and you can carry your gun, loaded or unloaded, concealed or openly, just about anywhere.

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 don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

There are some problems, and maybe these huge magazines, even, for someone who says, 'Look, I just use an AR-15 for target practice,' but do you really need to be standing there shooting at a silhouette a shot a second or even quicker with that kind of weapon? For what purpose?

The fact is that the AR-15 is a good rifle.

We've had an assault rifle ban in our country, and that did not accomplish the objectives. We had Columbine during the time that that ban was in place.

What's the justification for a semiautomatic weapon with a magazine of 30 rounds?

I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.

The assault weapon ban in this country should be reinstated.

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

What it is basically, if you go to a gun show, and there's somebody out there in the parking lot, and they're getting out of their car, and they've got an A-15 on their shoulder, or... John Q. Public wants to sell a handgun or whatever, then there's no background check.

I think that there should be an assault weapons ban.

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

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

Assault weapons ban reintroduced.

Let’s think what an assault weapon is. It could be a pencil –- a stab in the heart.

Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^