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Today’s move by the General Assembly to repeal our pistol permit law has made our communities less safe. Now, dangerous people – like violent criminals and domestic abusers – will be able to more easily get their hands on guns, too many worry that their kids may not come home from school. Gun violence is a terrifying threat, and eliminating background checks will make the job of law enforcement officers more difficult. While our legislators failed us, I’ll continue to do everything in my power to keep people in our state safe. – Josh Stein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Gonzalo Lopez fired several rounds at officers and was armed with an AR-15 and a pistol. – Jason Clark	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Because of the bravery of the Ukrainian people, President Biden was giving something you rarely get in geopolitics: a second chance. But if he signs this deal, if he signs this instrument of simultaneous surrender to Iran, Russia, and China, he will squander the second chance and America will suffer in the process, it’s like giving Putin the pistol to point at our heads to hold us hostage. It makes absolutely no sense and again, it undermines everything that President Biden promised with respect to Vladimir Putin. – Mike Gallagher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The gun used in this incident was a 40-caliber pistol. It had an extended magazine, we know Garland Police Chief Jeff Bryan fired at least 20 rounds because we found the shell casings. – Garland Police Chief Jeff Bryan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The shooter, Floyd Corkins, came into our building armed with a 9 mm pistol, two ammunition clips of 15 rounds in his front pocket, the rounds in the gun, and a box of 50 additional rounds, he also had 15 individually wrapped Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He was not puffing things up when he told the investigators that he intended ‘to kill as many people as [he] could.’ He shot our building manager, Leo Johnson, shattering the major bones of his left arm. Even after taking a bullet, Leo heroically tackled the shooter putting a stop to what would have been a mass murder. Corkins was later convicted of domestic terrorism in Washington, D.C. – Jerry Boykin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Old associates of the housepainter/alleged serial killer claim that, a few years prior to Poste’s 2018 death at 80, he had quietly given away his weapons, pistol parts, gunpowder, bullets and shell casings – more than a thousand, involving 25 different calibers – to his favorite locals, and most of these peculiar ‘gifts’ have remained in basements and closets, untouched, ever since. – The Case	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Give me an hour, I'll tell you how to hold a pistol and look professional, you may not be able to really shoot, but you'll be able to look professional when you're holding that pistol -- but I wouldn't trust you to check it and verify the status. Not unless you're trained a little better. – David Katz	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
One male was armed with a baseball bat and the other male with a pistol. When Dodge Challenger attempted to flee, the male with the pistol fired multiple gunshots at the passenger side of Dodge Challenger. – Joe Argueta	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We decided that we were going to try to change that and make sure that New York state residents who want a pistol permit or a concealed carry permit are given the same protections under the law that everybody else in the other 42 states are given. – Association President Tom King	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
A lot of the problems in Mexico arent related to common crime; it is about major organized crime. If I was carrying a pistol and was stopped by 10 guys with AK-47s, it isnt only useless, it is going to be provocative in that situation. – Ioan Grillo	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Me walking into a polling location openly carrying my pistol is not intimidating anybody. – Joey Roberts	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I was always surprised to see her out there facing off [the] welfare crowd, i grabbed my rifle and I was standing up on the porch -- and all of a sudden I see her in the front yard with our pistol in her hand. What a woman. – Mark McCloskey	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching. – Gregory McMichael	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol ... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching. – Marcus Arbery Sr.	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What our deputies did not know at the time was that David Ward was not only the owner of the car, but the victim of the earlier carjacking, the suspect had pistol-whipped him and stole his car. David Ward had recovered the car but failed to report it. It remains a mystery as to why David Ward fled from our deputies. – Sheriff Essick	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When the manager told them they were out, one of the males became upset and pulled a pistol and demanded a chicken sandwich, the manager again informed them they were out of sandwiches. – Houston Police Lt. Larry Crowson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If you empty your clip, youre shooting off $15, you lose your pistol or the police take it and youre throwing away $800. – El Negrito	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
He said a guy pulled a pistol out of a guitar case and started to shoot. – Fernando Montoya	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It was the responsibility of the Civil Aviation Authority to search each passenger before boarding and it was done for this aircraft also, but it is a big question to us that how he boarded with a pistol, now we are focusing on two issues – his background and identity and the security aspect that how he boarded with a pistol. – Nayeem Hasan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I don't think we know exactly what happened, other than some 17-year-old boy that nobody predicted would have done something like this took his father's shotgun and pistol and murdered these poor, poor kids. So, I'm not sure we know what legislation we need to pass, although obviously we need to work hard and find ways to stop things like that from happening. – John Cornyn	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Frankly, I think the ideal weapon would be a pistol. – Brian Ellison	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations. – Benjamin Netanyahu	added by davidb 7 years ago
There’s nothing standard about approaching a driver with a pistol out. That should not have happened. – John Urquhart	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Plus, he added, the gun was a fake. There’s no evidence and the government can not prove it’s a real gun, lawrence Hashish would know better than to put Lawrence Hashish in that position with a real gun, but Lawrence Hashish felt that since this was fake it would mean nothing. Lawrence Hashish had nothing to worry about. It’s like having a water pistol. – Lawrence Hashish	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

Today’s move by the General Assembly to repeal our pistol permit law has made our communities less safe. Now, dangerous people – like violent criminals and domestic abusers – will be able to more easily get their hands on guns, too many worry that their kids may not come home from school. Gun violence is a terrifying threat, and eliminating background checks will make the job of law enforcement officers more difficult. While our legislators failed us, I’ll continue to do everything in my power to keep people in our state safe.

– Josh Stein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Gonzalo Lopez fired several rounds at officers and was armed with an AR-15 and a pistol.

– Jason Clark

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Because of the bravery of the Ukrainian people, President Biden was giving something you rarely get in geopolitics: a second chance. But if he signs this deal, if he signs this instrument of simultaneous surrender to Iran, Russia, and China, he will squander the second chance and America will suffer in the process, it’s like giving Putin the pistol to point at our heads to hold us hostage. It makes absolutely no sense and again, it undermines everything that President Biden promised with respect to Vladimir Putin.

– Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The gun used in this incident was a 40-caliber pistol. It had an extended magazine, we know Garland Police Chief Jeff Bryan fired at least 20 rounds because we found the shell casings.

– Garland Police Chief Jeff Bryan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The shooter, Floyd Corkins, came into our building armed with a 9 mm pistol, two ammunition clips of 15 rounds in his front pocket, the rounds in the gun, and a box of 50 additional rounds, he also had 15 individually wrapped Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He was not puffing things up when he told the investigators that he intended ‘to kill as many people as [he] could.’ He shot our building manager, Leo Johnson, shattering the major bones of his left arm. Even after taking a bullet, Leo heroically tackled the shooter putting a stop to what would have been a mass murder. Corkins was later convicted of domestic terrorism in Washington, D.C.

– Jerry Boykin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Old associates of the housepainter/alleged serial killer claim that, a few years prior to Poste’s 2018 death at 80, he had quietly given away his weapons, pistol parts, gunpowder, bullets and shell casings – more than a thousand, involving 25 different calibers – to his favorite locals, and most of these peculiar ‘gifts’ have remained in basements and closets, untouched, ever since.

– The Case

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Give me an hour, I'll tell you how to hold a pistol and look professional, you may not be able to really shoot, but you'll be able to look professional when you're holding that pistol -- but I wouldn't trust you to check it and verify the status. Not unless you're trained a little better.

– David Katz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

One male was armed with a baseball bat and the other male with a pistol. When Dodge Challenger attempted to flee, the male with the pistol fired multiple gunshots at the passenger side of Dodge Challenger.

– Joe Argueta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We decided that we were going to try to change that and make sure that New York state residents who want a pistol permit or a concealed carry permit are given the same protections under the law that everybody else in the other 42 states are given.

– Association President Tom King

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

A lot of the problems in Mexico arent related to common crime; it is about major organized crime. If I was carrying a pistol and was stopped by 10 guys with AK-47s, it isnt only useless, it is going to be provocative in that situation.

– Ioan Grillo

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Me walking into a polling location openly carrying my pistol is not intimidating anybody.

– Joey Roberts

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I was always surprised to see her out there facing off [the] welfare crowd, i grabbed my rifle and I was standing up on the porch -- and all of a sudden I see her in the front yard with our pistol in her hand. What a woman.

– Mark McCloskey

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching.

– Gregory McMichael

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol ... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching.

– Marcus Arbery Sr.

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What our deputies did not know at the time was that David Ward was not only the owner of the car, but the victim of the earlier carjacking, the suspect had pistol-whipped him and stole his car. David Ward had recovered the car but failed to report it. It remains a mystery as to why David Ward fled from our deputies.

– Sheriff Essick

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When the manager told them they were out, one of the males became upset and pulled a pistol and demanded a chicken sandwich, the manager again informed them they were out of sandwiches.

– Houston Police Lt. Larry Crowson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If you empty your clip, youre shooting off $15, you lose your pistol or the police take it and youre throwing away $800.

– El Negrito

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He said a guy pulled a pistol out of a guitar case and started to shoot.

– Fernando Montoya

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It was the responsibility of the Civil Aviation Authority to search each passenger before boarding and it was done for this aircraft also, but it is a big question to us that how he boarded with a pistol, now we are focusing on two issues – his background and identity and the security aspect that how he boarded with a pistol.

– Nayeem Hasan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I don't think we know exactly what happened, other than some 17-year-old boy that nobody predicted would have done something like this took his father's shotgun and pistol and murdered these poor, poor kids. So, I'm not sure we know what legislation we need to pass, although obviously we need to work hard and find ways to stop things like that from happening.

– John Cornyn

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Frankly, I think the ideal weapon would be a pistol.

– Brian Ellison

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

added by davidb
7 years ago

There’s nothing standard about approaching a driver with a pistol out. That should not have happened.

– John Urquhart

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Plus, he added, the gun was a fake. There’s no evidence and the government can not prove it’s a real gun, lawrence Hashish would know better than to put Lawrence Hashish in that position with a real gun, but Lawrence Hashish felt that since this was fake it would mean nothing. Lawrence Hashish had nothing to worry about. It’s like having a water pistol.

– Lawrence Hashish

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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