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He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun -- was very proficient in that, very tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him, many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of the shooting. – James Ison	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have to stop this senseless violence in the United States and the city of Chicago, here you have a kid who served his country in the Army … and then somebody was out there with a fully automatic handgun shoots him in the back. It paralyzes him for the rest of his life. This has to stop. People are getting slaughtered all over the United States of America. It has to stop. – Patrick Golden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our decision, as noted does not expand the categories of people who may lawfully possess a gun and federal law generally forbids the possession of a handgun by a person who is under the age of 18. – Samuel Alito	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some of these people reasonably believe that unless they can brandish or, if necessary, use a handgun in the face of attack, they may be murdered, raped, or suffer some other serious injury. – The George	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While smoking, Mr. Rowland produced a handgun, which had been concealed on his person, firing it in the direction of and striking [Calloway County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jody Cash]. – Murray State University	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We will correct some misinformation that has been circulating and are releasing images of the fight and struggle over a handgun that occurred inside the La Victoria Restaurant and of the individual who was holding the handgun at the time he was shot by one of our Officers. – San Jose Police Department	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That is my father's handgun on his nightstand. – Jackson Reffitt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Taser is yellow ; the firearm is black, the Taser has a stocky body to The Taser compared to the Glock handgun. The grip of The Taser is shorter and wider than The Glock. – Sam McGinnis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A preliminary review of the defendant's social media accounts, his cellphone, as well as other documented evidence recovered on scene showed that this defendant planned this shooting, he deliberately brought the handgun that day with the intent to murder as many students as he could. – Prosecutor Marc Keast	Found on CNN 2 years ago
While fleeing, the Silverado drove into the front of a marked patrol vehicle and the passenger fired a handgun toward officers, the truck then fled down Cascade Avenue and struck an SUV before crashing into a vacant building at 804 Cascade Avenue. – Atlanta Police Department	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There was a box of dummy rounds and the box is labeled dummy. Hannah did take from that box which she by all accounts should have been able to rely on, that contains only dummy rounds, she loaded rounds from that box into the handgun only to later find out -- and she had no idea -- she inspected the rounds, that there was a live round. Now we don't know, however, whether that live round came from that box. We're assuming it did. We're assuming somebody put the live round in that box, which if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging this set. There's no other reason you would do that. – Gutierrez Reed	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Plaintiffs asserted that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Checks System (NICS) failed to timely discover that the shooter was a person prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm, plaintiffs alleged that because of this delay, the shooter was able to purchase the handgun that he used to commit the atrocity. – The Justice Department	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Plaintiffs alleged that because of this delay, the shooter was able to purchase the handgun that he used to commit the atrocity. – The Justice Department	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
New York tries to defend its law as a reasonable ‘time and place and manner’ restriction, but under New York’s regime, the time when a handgun may be carried outside the house for self defense is never, the place is nowhere and the manner is not at all. – The NRA	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The driver's arm came out of the vehicle with a handgun and shot the deputy right here. – Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In Texas, repealing the permit altogether is a radical change, just allowing almost anyone to carry a handgun in public, no questions asked, no background check or safety training, is really dangerous. – Andrew Karwoski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The US's just this over abundance of guns and the fact that we no longer have that argument or fist fight in the backyard anymore, the US's an argument that leads directly to a handgun, something that we haven't seen in a long time. – Patrick Smith	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The family began to yell in fear, i used pepper spray on Sherman’s face through the partially opened door as he was still banging and attempting to gain entry. I told him to stop. I armed myself with my handgun at this time fearing for the safety of myself and my family. – Raymond Moss	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The family began to yell in fear, i used pepper spray on Sherman's face through the partially opened door as he was still banging and attempting to gain entry. I told him to stop. I armed myself with my handgun at this time fearing for the safety of myself and my family. – Raymond Moss	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was only then that Sgt. Perry, who carried a handgun in his car for his own protection while driving strangers in the ride share program, fired on the person to protect his own life. – Clint Broden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're going to lose more young people, 95 percent of those victims who are victims to gun violence are Black and brown, 95 percent of the shooters are Black and Brown, we're talking about Black lives matter. We must deal with police misconduct, but we have to deal with this real pervasive handgun problem. – Eric Adams	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're talking about Black Lives Matter, we must deal with police misconduct but we have to deal with this real, pervasive, handgun problem we have in New York City. – Andrew Yang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This has to stop. the young people involved believing that the way to solve their disputes is with a handgun. I mean, that just can't be the way, it's just too easy to access these guns and we have to do something about that. – Jorge Elorza	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This has to stop, the young people involved, believing that the way to solve their disputes is with a handgun — I mean, that can't be the way. – Jorge Elorza	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun -- was very proficient in that, very tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him, many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of the shooting.

– James Ison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to stop this senseless violence in the United States and the city of Chicago, here you have a kid who served his country in the Army … and then somebody was out there with a fully automatic handgun shoots him in the back. It paralyzes him for the rest of his life. This has to stop. People are getting slaughtered all over the United States of America. It has to stop.

– Patrick Golden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our decision, as noted does not expand the categories of people who may lawfully possess a gun and federal law generally forbids the possession of a handgun by a person who is under the age of 18.

– Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of these people reasonably believe that unless they can brandish or, if necessary, use a handgun in the face of attack, they may be murdered, raped, or suffer some other serious injury.

– The George

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While smoking, Mr. Rowland produced a handgun, which had been concealed on his person, firing it in the direction of and striking [Calloway County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jody Cash].

– Murray State University

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We will correct some misinformation that has been circulating and are releasing images of the fight and struggle over a handgun that occurred inside the La Victoria Restaurant and of the individual who was holding the handgun at the time he was shot by one of our Officers.

– San Jose Police Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That is my father's handgun on his nightstand.

– Jackson Reffitt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Taser is yellow ; the firearm is black, the Taser has a stocky body to The Taser compared to the Glock handgun. The grip of The Taser is shorter and wider than The Glock.

– Sam McGinnis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A preliminary review of the defendant's social media accounts, his cellphone, as well as other documented evidence recovered on scene showed that this defendant planned this shooting, he deliberately brought the handgun that day with the intent to murder as many students as he could.

– Prosecutor Marc Keast

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While fleeing, the Silverado drove into the front of a marked patrol vehicle and the passenger fired a handgun toward officers, the truck then fled down Cascade Avenue and struck an SUV before crashing into a vacant building at 804 Cascade Avenue.

– Atlanta Police Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There was a box of dummy rounds and the box is labeled dummy. Hannah did take from that box which she by all accounts should have been able to rely on, that contains only dummy rounds, she loaded rounds from that box into the handgun only to later find out -- and she had no idea -- she inspected the rounds, that there was a live round. Now we don't know, however, whether that live round came from that box. We're assuming it did. We're assuming somebody put the live round in that box, which if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging this set. There's no other reason you would do that.

– Gutierrez Reed

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Plaintiffs asserted that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Checks System (NICS) failed to timely discover that the shooter was a person prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm, plaintiffs alleged that because of this delay, the shooter was able to purchase the handgun that he used to commit the atrocity.

– The Justice Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Plaintiffs alleged that because of this delay, the shooter was able to purchase the handgun that he used to commit the atrocity.

– The Justice Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

New York tries to defend its law as a reasonable ‘time and place and manner’ restriction, but under New York’s regime, the time when a handgun may be carried outside the house for self defense is never, the place is nowhere and the manner is not at all.

– The NRA

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The driver's arm came out of the vehicle with a handgun and shot the deputy right here.

– Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In Texas, repealing the permit altogether is a radical change, just allowing almost anyone to carry a handgun in public, no questions asked, no background check or safety training, is really dangerous.

– Andrew Karwoski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The US's just this over abundance of guns and the fact that we no longer have that argument or fist fight in the backyard anymore, the US's an argument that leads directly to a handgun, something that we haven't seen in a long time.

– Patrick Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The family began to yell in fear, i used pepper spray on Sherman’s face through the partially opened door as he was still banging and attempting to gain entry. I told him to stop. I armed myself with my handgun at this time fearing for the safety of myself and my family.

– Raymond Moss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The family began to yell in fear, i used pepper spray on Sherman's face through the partially opened door as he was still banging and attempting to gain entry. I told him to stop. I armed myself with my handgun at this time fearing for the safety of myself and my family.

– Raymond Moss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was only then that Sgt. Perry, who carried a handgun in his car for his own protection while driving strangers in the ride share program, fired on the person to protect his own life.

– Clint Broden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're going to lose more young people, 95 percent of those victims who are victims to gun violence are Black and brown, 95 percent of the shooters are Black and Brown, we're talking about Black lives matter. We must deal with police misconduct, but we have to deal with this real pervasive handgun problem.

– Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're talking about Black Lives Matter, we must deal with police misconduct but we have to deal with this real, pervasive, handgun problem we have in New York City.

– Andrew Yang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This has to stop. the young people involved believing that the way to solve their disputes is with a handgun. I mean, that just can't be the way, it's just too easy to access these guns and we have to do something about that.

– Jorge Elorza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This has to stop, the young people involved, believing that the way to solve their disputes is with a handgun — I mean, that can't be the way.

– Jorge Elorza

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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