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.

Thank you for joining us at this Committee hearing, as well as my other colleagues who will be here.

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

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.

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

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

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

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The belief of NRA is the Second Amendment has to give American citizens the firepower to fight back against you, against our Government.

I cannot relate to the need of that man in Aurora, Colorado, to have a 100-round drum, 100 cartridges.

I am sorry it has taken 2 years for us to convene this hearing, but it took Newtown, Connecticut, to finally bring us to our senses and to open this national conversation.

Tell us about the lives that were saved in Tucson and what it had to do with magazines.

Well, that is what it is all about, then?

Our biggest problem in Chicago, according to Superintendent McCarthy, who came to Chicago from New York, is that we are awash in guns.