Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"describing those purposes as ephemeral and generic."

"No right being absolute, public safety being a legitimate consideration, is one with which you would agree?"

"The Second Amendment is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever for any purpose."

"I have long been an advocate of commonsense, sensible measures to combat gun violence, going back to my earliest days as State Attorney General."