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I think there are some misconceptions with... rifles. A lot of people say,' Oh, they're big bullets.' Actually, they're small bullets -- interestingly, they're even smaller than many handguns. So the actual bullet that's discharged from An AR-15, for example, is a half the size of the bullet from a 9 millimeter. The difference is the... velocity. – Acute Care Surgery.Matthew McConaughey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
So I packed some, you know, guns, rifles and shotguns and handguns, right there, another driving shooter. I was hiding behind the car, another shooter. The first time, I was scared. – David Joo	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Make no mistake, allowing Election Judges to carry handguns will intimidate voters and bad actors will use this opportunity to show up in Black and brown precincts and wreak havoc. This is dead wrong, texas Court of Criminal Appeals has a long and racist history of voter intimidation and allowing Election Judges to carry handguns in polling locations will only add to that ugly history. – Charlie Bonner	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We fully support law-abiding citizens and their right to defend themselves from violent Antifa thugs, kyle Rittenhouse was doing Kyle Rittenhouse best to protect business owners from losing their entire livelihoods when criminal actors instigated violence against Kyle Rittenhouse, Dudley Brown said. Unfortunately for them, Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with an AR-15 and their rocks, skateboards, and handguns stood no chance against Kyle Rittenhouse well-placed shots. – Dudley Brown	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
He was our leading police officer in removing guns from the street, dozens and dozens of handguns, he is responsible for removing from the street. – Police Chief Michael Kelly	Found on CNN 5 years ago
[I]f society acknowledges that handguns have significant defensive value and can help save the lives of police officers and security guards, how can society deny that handguns can also help save the lives of other people? – David B. Kopel	added by Normando 5 years ago
Households that never previously had handguns now do. – David Studdert	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Mississippi law enforcement, families and faith leaders all spoke out against this reckless bill that will allow dangerous people to carry hidden, loaded handguns in public without a permit. – Shirley Hopkins Davis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If a public institution of higher education placed a prohibition on handguns in the institution's campus residential facilities, it would effectively prohibit license holders in those facilities from carrying concealed handguns on campus, in violation of the express terms of (the law). – Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton	Found on Reuters 9 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 9 years ago
I shoot long guns left handed and handguns right handed. – Robert Bates	Found on CNN 9 years ago
As they were kneeling for the second round of praying, men armed with small handguns fitted with silencers came in and shot everyone from behind. – Abdul Waheed Bahaduri	Found on FOX News 10 years ago
There's going to come a time when we're not going to see him as an 18-year-old kid, we're going to see him as someone who's stolen three vehicles with two handguns in them, and the outcome is not going to be good for either one of them if they don't turn themselves in. – Norman Chaffins	Found on FOX News 10 years ago
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. – Mitch Ratcliffe	added by anonymous 15 years ago
There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. – Michael Gartner	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Handguns are a public-health problem. – Josh Sugarmann	added by anonymous 15 years ago

I think there are some misconceptions with... rifles. A lot of people say,' Oh, they're big bullets.' Actually, they're small bullets -- interestingly, they're even smaller than many handguns. So the actual bullet that's discharged from An AR-15, for example, is a half the size of the bullet from a 9 millimeter. The difference is the... velocity.

– Acute Care Surgery.Matthew McConaughey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So I packed some, you know, guns, rifles and shotguns and handguns, right there, another driving shooter. I was hiding behind the car, another shooter. The first time, I was scared.

– David Joo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Make no mistake, allowing Election Judges to carry handguns will intimidate voters and bad actors will use this opportunity to show up in Black and brown precincts and wreak havoc. This is dead wrong, texas Court of Criminal Appeals has a long and racist history of voter intimidation and allowing Election Judges to carry handguns in polling locations will only add to that ugly history.

– Charlie Bonner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We fully support law-abiding citizens and their right to defend themselves from violent Antifa thugs, kyle Rittenhouse was doing Kyle Rittenhouse best to protect business owners from losing their entire livelihoods when criminal actors instigated violence against Kyle Rittenhouse, Dudley Brown said. Unfortunately for them, Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with an AR-15 and their rocks, skateboards, and handguns stood no chance against Kyle Rittenhouse well-placed shots.

– Dudley Brown

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

He was our leading police officer in removing guns from the street, dozens and dozens of handguns, he is responsible for removing from the street.

– Police Chief Michael Kelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

[I]f society acknowledges that handguns have significant defensive value and can help save the lives of police officers and security guards, how can society deny that handguns can also help save the lives of other people?

– David B. Kopel

added by Normando
5 years ago

Households that never previously had handguns now do.

– David Studdert

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Mississippi law enforcement, families and faith leaders all spoke out against this reckless bill that will allow dangerous people to carry hidden, loaded handguns in public without a permit.

– Shirley Hopkins Davis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If a public institution of higher education placed a prohibition on handguns in the institution's campus residential facilities, it would effectively prohibit license holders in those facilities from carrying concealed handguns on campus, in violation of the express terms of (the law).

– Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton

Found on Reuters
9 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
9 years ago

I shoot long guns left handed and handguns right handed.

– Robert Bates

Found on CNN
9 years ago

As they were kneeling for the second round of praying, men armed with small handguns fitted with silencers came in and shot everyone from behind.

– Abdul Waheed Bahaduri

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

There's going to come a time when we're not going to see him as an 18-year-old kid, we're going to see him as someone who's stolen three vehicles with two handguns in them, and the outcome is not going to be good for either one of them if they don't turn themselves in.

– Norman Chaffins

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

– Mitch Ratcliffe

added by anonymous
15 years ago

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

– Michael Gartner

added by anonymous
15 years ago

Handguns are a public-health problem.

– Josh Sugarmann

added by anonymous
15 years ago

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