Firearm Ownership Quotes

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible..

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

I think we need national carry reciprocity.

Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead.

A gun saved my life. That's why I won't let my Second Amendment right be taken away from me.

The great object is that every man be armed.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

Guns are our friends, because in a world without guns I'm what as known as prey. Almost all females are.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Gun regulation is historically as American as is gun possession.

Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.

Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police.

No one should take away people's rights. But with respect to 'the right to arm ourselves,' we have lost sight of our own history.