The NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

I don’t think we need more gun control laws.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.