Richard Shelby

I am concerned that some of my Senate colleagues may not fully appreciate the policy of assured access to space.

I think we all would accept the basic premise we want to build our own engine.

Well, I think a lot of us would agree that we want to keep guns away from people with mental health problems, criminals, terrorists, and everything else. But we want to, I hope, always protect the right of gun owners and people who own…

He wants to do it by executive order. Is that correct?

Have you seen any administration in recent years or even in past years in the presidency that would look at part of our constitutional makeup and attack this amendment, the Bill of Rights, or attack this part of the Constitution like this…

Do you believe that rather than saving lives, the President's executive actions could result in more lives lost through the violation of a constitutionally guaranteed right to self-defense?

I believe the end game should be that we all uphold the Constitution, all amendments, including the Second Amendment.

He wants to include rights that are protected in the law.

Do you think that this announcement by the President will have a chilling effect on citizens who merely want to exercise their constitutional rights?

But millions of Americans--millions--own guns. I, for one, have sold a gun and taken money to buy another gun, but I am not a gun dealer and so forth.

Chipping away at our constitutional right.

Loose talk by this President about sweepingly denying people the right to buy a gun without any adjudicatory process is irresponsible, and actual steps in that direction would be downright tyrannical.

This sends a message to criminals that if you commit a crime with a gun, this administration will not be hard on you, perhaps go easy on you.

I do not believe they did. Did they?

The Second Amendment is part of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

How can the President and you, the Attorney General representing this administration, say he is committed to using every tool at the administration's disposal to reduce gun violence when his own administrator is not following through with…

The President's plan on gun control would require officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to begin contacting gun sellers to let them know of new standards

So the President, I believe, is trying to assault the constitutional rights, and also he is trying to get around the law.

I always find it interesting that when they talk about the Second Amendment, they like to refer to hunting.

In other words, I have these rights but I better be careful to exercise them.

President Obama I believe is far too willing to end run Congress through executive action.

We have a right to defend ourselves. Do we not?

The rights that it conveys to the people of this Nation are not recommendations.

Let us not get involved in constitutional arguments, and let us help our American people be safe and secure in their home, their neighborhood, their school, and their house of worship.

The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is an individual right protected in the Bill of Rights that has been recognized by the Supreme Court.