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The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick, i’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons. – Hunter Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick, it has no socially redeeming value… Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The defendant allegedly brought these semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines up from the south, sometimes transporting them in a duffle bag by bus. Dozens of the firearms were loaded and four are considered assault weapons. The NYPD worked diligently to intercept these deadly weapons before they hit our streets, bronxites are dying from gunfire and we can not tolerate one more illegal gun in our community. – Darcel Clark	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have a time where we have both violence rising and incarceration, and the goal is to simultaneously reduce both, i had a shooting on my block a month ago, I've had a knife to my neck, I've had a semi-automatic weapon to my head, I know these issues intimately. So what we are doing is not working, plain and simple and this is our path forward. This is how we reduce violent crime the most. – Alvin Bragg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In addition to being the first Black district attorney, I think I'll probably be the first district attorney who's had police point a gun at him. I think I'll be the first district attorney who's had a homicide victim on his doorstop. I think I'll be the first district attorney in Manhattan whose had a semi-automatic weapon pointed at him. I think I'll be the first district attorney in Manhattan whose had a loved one reenter from incarceration and stay with him, and I'm going to govern from that perspective. – Alvin Bragg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Modern gun laws became a political flashpoint in the late 1960s through the current day withthe passage of several new state and federal gun laws. The dividing lines became more clear in the 1990s with a controversial ban on the production of semi-automatic rifles. – Phil Watson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
On 15 March our history changed forever. Now, our laws will too. We are announcing action today on behalf of all New Zealanders to strengthen our gun laws and make our country a safer place, all semi-automatic weapons used during the terrorist attack on Friday 15 March will be banned. – Jacinda Ardern	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We will ban all high-capacity magazines. We will ban all parts with the ability to convert semiautomatic, or any other type of firearm, into a military-style semi-automatic weapon, in short, every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on Friday will be banned in this country. – New Zealand	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Fully automatic weapons have been justifiably illegal for civilian use for over 30 years. Any device which circumvents that law by increasing a weapon’s rate of fire from semi-automatic to fully automatic ought to be illegal as well, i am encouraged by the president’s directive... to regulate these devices, but a temporary regulatory fix is no substitute for permanent law. – Jeff Flake	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Everybody immediately runs to the 9th Circuit. And we have a big country, we have lots of other locations. But they immediately run to the 9th Circuit. Because they know that's like, semi-automatic. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Let me say something to every political hack pretending to know an AR-15 from a double-barrel shot gun, in the wake of the Orlando attack, for the vast major of people I work with, there is nothing better to defend their homes against realistic threats than with an AR-15 semi-automatic. – Dom Raso	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The suspect, then without any warning, takes out a semi-automatic pistol and fires one shot at our officer. – Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
On at least two occasions, Finicum reaches his right hand toward a pocket ... on his jacket, he did have a loaded 9 mm semi-automatic handgun in that pocket. – Greg Bretzing	Found on CNN 8 years ago
What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terror suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon? – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have so many semi-automatic weapons that can be easily concealed, and taken from the home and used on classmates or whoever, the real problem in (the United States) has to do with handguns being in the hands of the wrong people. But you can't blame it all on guns. (The United States) leads the Western world in nongun homicides, too. – Jack Levin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The officers were not acting out of line at any time during the arrest. The person involved in this altercation had a semi-automatic gun, and the officers were protecting themselves and the public. They did what had to be done to protect themselves. – Winston Calvert	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Any new semi-automatic gun that we want to carry for self defense or purchase as collectors will not be available to us at all. – Gene Hoffman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Google is pushing the theme of self-driving cars very strongly. That's having a very positive effect for the entire automotive industry, because it enormously accelerates the pace of introducing drive-assist systems and semi-automatic functions. – Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. – Josh Sugarmann	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick, i’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.

– Hunter Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick, it has no socially redeeming value… Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The defendant allegedly brought these semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines up from the south, sometimes transporting them in a duffle bag by bus. Dozens of the firearms were loaded and four are considered assault weapons. The NYPD worked diligently to intercept these deadly weapons before they hit our streets, bronxites are dying from gunfire and we can not tolerate one more illegal gun in our community.

– Darcel Clark

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have a time where we have both violence rising and incarceration, and the goal is to simultaneously reduce both, i had a shooting on my block a month ago, I've had a knife to my neck, I've had a semi-automatic weapon to my head, I know these issues intimately. So what we are doing is not working, plain and simple and this is our path forward. This is how we reduce violent crime the most.

– Alvin Bragg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In addition to being the first Black district attorney, I think I'll probably be the first district attorney who's had police point a gun at him. I think I'll be the first district attorney who's had a homicide victim on his doorstop. I think I'll be the first district attorney in Manhattan whose had a semi-automatic weapon pointed at him. I think I'll be the first district attorney in Manhattan whose had a loved one reenter from incarceration and stay with him, and I'm going to govern from that perspective.

– Alvin Bragg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Modern gun laws became a political flashpoint in the late 1960s through the current day withthe passage of several new state and federal gun laws. The dividing lines became more clear in the 1990s with a controversial ban on the production of semi-automatic rifles.

– Phil Watson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

On 15 March our history changed forever. Now, our laws will too. We are announcing action today on behalf of all New Zealanders to strengthen our gun laws and make our country a safer place, all semi-automatic weapons used during the terrorist attack on Friday 15 March will be banned.

– Jacinda Ardern

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We will ban all high-capacity magazines. We will ban all parts with the ability to convert semiautomatic, or any other type of firearm, into a military-style semi-automatic weapon, in short, every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on Friday will be banned in this country.

– New Zealand

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Fully automatic weapons have been justifiably illegal for civilian use for over 30 years. Any device which circumvents that law by increasing a weapon’s rate of fire from semi-automatic to fully automatic ought to be illegal as well, i am encouraged by the president’s directive... to regulate these devices, but a temporary regulatory fix is no substitute for permanent law.

– Jeff Flake

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Everybody immediately runs to the 9th Circuit. And we have a big country, we have lots of other locations. But they immediately run to the 9th Circuit. Because they know that's like, semi-automatic.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Let me say something to every political hack pretending to know an AR-15 from a double-barrel shot gun, in the wake of the Orlando attack, for the vast major of people I work with, there is nothing better to defend their homes against realistic threats than with an AR-15 semi-automatic.

– Dom Raso

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The suspect, then without any warning, takes out a semi-automatic pistol and fires one shot at our officer.

– Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On at least two occasions, Finicum reaches his right hand toward a pocket ... on his jacket, he did have a loaded 9 mm semi-automatic handgun in that pocket.

– Greg Bretzing

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terror suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon?

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have so many semi-automatic weapons that can be easily concealed, and taken from the home and used on classmates or whoever, the real problem in (the United States) has to do with handguns being in the hands of the wrong people. But you can't blame it all on guns. (The United States) leads the Western world in nongun homicides, too.

– Jack Levin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The officers were not acting out of line at any time during the arrest. The person involved in this altercation had a semi-automatic gun, and the officers were protecting themselves and the public. They did what had to be done to protect themselves.

– Winston Calvert

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Any new semi-automatic gun that we want to carry for self defense or purchase as collectors will not be available to us at all.

– Gene Hoffman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Google is pushing the theme of self-driving cars very strongly. That's having a very positive effect for the entire automotive industry, because it enormously accelerates the pace of introducing drive-assist systems and semi-automatic functions.

– Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

– Josh Sugarmann

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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