Illegal Guns Quotes

• I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure that criminals don't have guns in their hands. We can make certain that those who are mentally deranged are not getting a hold of handguns. We can trace guns that have been used in crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers that may be selling to straw purchasers and dumping them on the streets.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Gun, Issues

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• Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state - and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Gun, Law

  Michael Bloomberg's Address on Efforts To Stop The Flow Of Illegal Guns Into New York, www1.nyc.gov. May 21, 2006.

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• The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gun, People, Majority

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• Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Running, Night, Gun

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• Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

  Martin Heinrich

  Real, Gun, Law

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• After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Dust, Law

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