We have reached a tipping point. We need to act.

Just outside Chicago in a suburb is one gun store that we can hold responsible for 20 percent of the crime guns that we confiscate in the city of Chicago.

The Second Amendment right is 'not unlimited,' and that like other rights, it is subject to reasonable regulation.

I also want to thank Senator Pat Leahy, Chairman of the full Committee, for giving this opportunity to us to have this hearing today.

We cannot deal with this in isolation community by community.

History has never been the sole determinant of the meaning of any constitutional provision.

We have to work very closely with our State and local partners in a collaborative approach to gun violence.

So we need to do more to keep guns out of the wrong hands in the first place.

I have joined with Chairman Leahy in cosponsoring legislation relating to straw purchasers.

We should not design or conduct undercover operations which include guns crossing the border.

I do not think anyone is saying that there should not be a right to bear arms.

Some say we should just enforce the laws that are on the books, but that is not enough.

I think it is fairly obvious and rational to believe some of these gang bangers are never going to walk into a gun dealer.

The only people who should be disturbed by common-sense gun laws are people who should not have guns in the first place.

The Supreme Court did not suggest in Heller or McDonald or in any other case that uniquely within the Constitution the Second Amendment protects a certain fixed set of objects.

the violence that cuts short all these lives--is beyond our reach because of the Second Amendment, and my answer to that is an emphatic no.

There are burning fires of violence in that community, and we have to pool our resources and work collaboratively.

All of these proposals are based on common sense; all of them have strong support among the American public.