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We did n’t fire many rounds during the military training, i was practicing with the T65 assault rifle, and I only shot about 40 rounds during the entire training period. – Paul Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would like to vote for a Democrat to fix the gun issue, but I don't want the guns taken away, i would like to see that the assault rifle age … would be 21. – Ame Matoi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I've seen this a million times, where alcoholic parents then feel guilty because they were drinking and carrying on and fighting and everything while raising the kid, and their guilt causes them to be enablers, and what that all means with him is, I don’t know everything because all the information isn’t out there, but that could create a situation where the father would be enabling him by helping him purchase the rifle. – John Kelly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The way it usually works is he would’ve been arrested, he would have to get a lawyer, the prosecutor would have said, ‘Get him into counseling and get us some reports on him. We want to make sure he’s not a danger.' … He would’ve been evaluated for mental health, and at that point in time, I don’t know if he would have still been able to buy the rifle. – John Kelly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
She made her choice that many people in the same circumstance would say they would make, but it's the first time I've ever seen anyone make it. She braced herself to be shot in the back of the head or in the back while she administered first aid, chief James E. White's( Davis) advancing on her with an assault rifle( sic). She's administering first aid... she glances back, braces herself and continues to apply direct pressure. – Chief James E. White	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m proud to be a Black Rifle Coffee franchisee. Mybusiness partner is a special operations veteran and we both get a lot of satisfaction from being part of a company that does so much for the veteran community. It’s great to see the Cowboys supporting veterans by partnering with Black Rifle Coffee, i'd love for more NFL teams to join them. – Jarret Johnson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We need background checks, we need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21. We need a waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them. – Matthew McConaughey	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
No civilian needs an assault rifle and the Second Amendment does not protect the right to own a weapon of war. It's time we banned assault rifles, from our streets, from our communities, from our homes. – Carolyn Maloney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our witnesses today have endured pain and loss, yet they are displaying incredible courage by coming here to ask us to do our jobs. Let us hear their voices, let us honor their courage, let us find the same courage to pass common sense laws to protect our children, no civilian needs an assault rifle and the Second Amendment does not protect the right to own a weapon of war. It's time we banned assault rifles, from our streets, from our communities, from our homes. – Carolyn Maloney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Yet, we rolled the National Rifle Association. – Jared Moskowitz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, where one of our products was criminally misused, we believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the National Rifle Association meeting. – Steve Reed	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Don't worry, this rifle's chocolate but the bullets are real, happy Easter, and God bless Russia -- I mean, America. Kind of both, right ? – Kate McKinnon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The only possible reason for me staying in Ukraine longer last time would've been for me to be holding a rifle. – Sean Penn	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It appeared to me they were being executed with this rifle, i returned fire through the sliding glass door, and that did not stop the threat. – Brett Hankison	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As soon as I returned fire through that window the threat stopped, and I felt pretty helpless, like there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle. – Brett Hankison	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And I felt pretty helpless, like there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle. – Brett Hankison	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's not OK for a man to grab a rifle, travel across state lines, and shoot three people, and then walk free. – Amber Ruffin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The fact is, before the color barrier was broken in professional sports, before it was broken in schools, lunch lines, water fountains, in the media, or in Hollywood, before all of that, and since our founding 150 years ago, the National Rifle Association of America has not only welcomed all Americans. We've fought for civil rights and constitutional freedom for all Americans! – Wayne LaPierre	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our job is to protect this business and part of my job is to also help people, if there's somebody hurt, I'm running into harm's way. That's why I have my rifle, because I need to protect Kyle Rittenhouse obviously. I also have my med kit. – Kyle Rittenhouse	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’m a guy who’s terrorized living in Fort Lee, an incident happens where a guy gets my car started, I came out of the house with a rifle, the guy puts the car into drive, drives forward, and my gun discharges. POLICE OFFICER WHO MURDERED SARAH EVERARD GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE. – Evan Wexler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment, firearms deemed as' assault weapons' are fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles. – Judge Benitez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I, Tatanka Iyotanka, wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. We have killed enough white men with your rifles, so I give this rifle back to you, for Tunkasila Wakan Tanka will use a different way to help us overcome the white man. – Sitting Bull	added by Heyoka 2 years ago
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. – Sitting Bull	added by Heyoka 2 years ago
The ammunition was the same or even less powerful than a common hunting rifle, but the common hunting rifle had a different outward physical appearance. – Alan Rice	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

We did n’t fire many rounds during the military training, i was practicing with the T65 assault rifle, and I only shot about 40 rounds during the entire training period.

– Paul Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would like to vote for a Democrat to fix the gun issue, but I don't want the guns taken away, i would like to see that the assault rifle age … would be 21.

– Ame Matoi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I've seen this a million times, where alcoholic parents then feel guilty because they were drinking and carrying on and fighting and everything while raising the kid, and their guilt causes them to be enablers, and what that all means with him is, I don’t know everything because all the information isn’t out there, but that could create a situation where the father would be enabling him by helping him purchase the rifle.

– John Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The way it usually works is he would’ve been arrested, he would have to get a lawyer, the prosecutor would have said, ‘Get him into counseling and get us some reports on him. We want to make sure he’s not a danger.' … He would’ve been evaluated for mental health, and at that point in time, I don’t know if he would have still been able to buy the rifle.

– John Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

She made her choice that many people in the same circumstance would say they would make, but it's the first time I've ever seen anyone make it. She braced herself to be shot in the back of the head or in the back while she administered first aid, chief James E. White's( Davis) advancing on her with an assault rifle( sic). She's administering first aid... she glances back, braces herself and continues to apply direct pressure.

– Chief James E. White

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m proud to be a Black Rifle Coffee franchisee. Mybusiness partner is a special operations veteran and we both get a lot of satisfaction from being part of a company that does so much for the veteran community. It’s great to see the Cowboys supporting veterans by partnering with Black Rifle Coffee, i'd love for more NFL teams to join them.

– Jarret Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need background checks, we need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21. We need a waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them.

– Matthew McConaughey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No civilian needs an assault rifle and the Second Amendment does not protect the right to own a weapon of war. It's time we banned assault rifles, from our streets, from our communities, from our homes.

– Carolyn Maloney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our witnesses today have endured pain and loss, yet they are displaying incredible courage by coming here to ask us to do our jobs. Let us hear their voices, let us honor their courage, let us find the same courage to pass common sense laws to protect our children, no civilian needs an assault rifle and the Second Amendment does not protect the right to own a weapon of war. It's time we banned assault rifles, from our streets, from our communities, from our homes.

– Carolyn Maloney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Yet, we rolled the National Rifle Association.

– Jared Moskowitz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, where one of our products was criminally misused, we believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the National Rifle Association meeting.

– Steve Reed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Don't worry, this rifle's chocolate but the bullets are real, happy Easter, and God bless Russia -- I mean, America. Kind of both, right ?

– Kate McKinnon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The only possible reason for me staying in Ukraine longer last time would've been for me to be holding a rifle.

– Sean Penn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It appeared to me they were being executed with this rifle, i returned fire through the sliding glass door, and that did not stop the threat.

– Brett Hankison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As soon as I returned fire through that window the threat stopped, and I felt pretty helpless, like there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle.

– Brett Hankison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And I felt pretty helpless, like there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle.

– Brett Hankison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's not OK for a man to grab a rifle, travel across state lines, and shoot three people, and then walk free.

– Amber Ruffin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The fact is, before the color barrier was broken in professional sports, before it was broken in schools, lunch lines, water fountains, in the media, or in Hollywood, before all of that, and since our founding 150 years ago, the National Rifle Association of America has not only welcomed all Americans. We've fought for civil rights and constitutional freedom for all Americans!

– Wayne LaPierre

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our job is to protect this business and part of my job is to also help people, if there's somebody hurt, I'm running into harm's way. That's why I have my rifle, because I need to protect Kyle Rittenhouse obviously. I also have my med kit.

– Kyle Rittenhouse

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m a guy who’s terrorized living in Fort Lee, an incident happens where a guy gets my car started, I came out of the house with a rifle, the guy puts the car into drive, drives forward, and my gun discharges. POLICE OFFICER WHO MURDERED SARAH EVERARD GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE.

– Evan Wexler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment, firearms deemed as' assault weapons' are fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles.

– Judge Benitez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I, Tatanka Iyotanka, wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. We have killed enough white men with your rifles, so I give this rifle back to you, for Tunkasila Wakan Tanka will use a different way to help us overcome the white man.

– Sitting Bull

added by Heyoka
2 years ago

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

– Sitting Bull

added by Heyoka
2 years ago

The ammunition was the same or even less powerful than a common hunting rifle, but the common hunting rifle had a different outward physical appearance.

– Alan Rice

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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