Gun Prohibitionist Sayings

  • Sen. Diane Feinstein
    – 1995 – “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them — Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in — I would have done it.” – 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl on CBS
    -assault weapons definition is “quite technical”
    – 2012 “It gets quite technical, and I won’t go into it right now.”
    – 2012  “It’s the clip that enables you to have the firepower…”
    – 2013 “it’s legal to hunt humans”
  • Carolyn McCarthy
    2007 – “I actually don’t know what that is, I think it is the Shoulder thing that goes up”
    “I actually don’t know what a barrel shroud is, I do believe it’s the shoulder things that go up.”

    – U.S. Representative from New York
  • Patricia Eddington
    – July 2007
    – Assemblywoman
    “Incendiary device at the tip of it, incendiary round was heat seeking, You can cook the deer”
  • Sandy Sheedy
    – 2010 “You can be shot with an unloaded gun”
    – Sacramento City Councilmember, Sacramento District 2
  • Michael Bloomberg
    – ignorant on full auto vs. semi auto
    – 2012 “
    pistols are different you need to pull the trigger each time.. an assault weapon you basically hold the trigger, it goes buh ba bup”
    – Cynthia McFaddan
    – “We are going to do this whether you like it or not”
  • Jesse Jackson
    – 2013 – Semi Automatic weapons can shoot down airplanes
  • Joe Biden
    – 2013 Fire two blasts
    “If there is ever a problem just walk out on the balcony snd fire two blasts with the shotgun”
  • Congresswoman Diane DeGette
    – 2013 “I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.”
    “Large capacity ammunition feeding devices”
  • Don Lemon
    – 2014 – I can do that with my automatic AR15
    – “I can shoot off a number off rounds”
  • Kevin de León
    CA Sen
    – 2014 30 caliber magazine clip
  • Bill Weld
    – 2016 Says Military Weapons are 5-rounds standard
    – thinks adding a magazine creates a machine gun
    – Remove the pin so it becomes fully automatic
  • Gov Terry McAuliffe
    – Virginia Governor
    – 2017 “we loose 93 million Americans a day to gun violence”
  • Shela Jackson Lee
    – 2019 “held an AR-15 in my hand,” which weighed as much as “10 boxes that you might be moving.”
    – facing a “domestic crisis” related to guns
  • Sgt Cheryl Dorsey
    – Aug 2019 “Armory that officers wear”
    – “Double Barrel Magazine Extended Clips..”
    – Retired Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Sergeant

  • David Cicilline
    – 2022 (D-RI)
    – claimed that a stabilizing brace turns an AR-pistol into an “automatic weapon.”
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