Jerry Nadler actually said...

"By allowing killers to rapidly and repeatedly fire bullets at their human targets without stopping to reload, assault weapons are designed for maximum bloodshed."

"The question becomes, why such large-capacity magazines on these assault weapons and assault rifles, if we are talking about hunting?"

"Simply put, civilian assault weapons are just semi-automatic versions of military weapons."

"Let's just, for purpose of this hearing, call them weapons of mass destruction, because there are three officers in Baton Rouge whose families will never see them again."