Jerry Nadler actually said...

"If we just take my district, since I have been in Congress, I have lost five officers who were overpowered by perpetrators because they were better-armed than my police officers."

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

"God forbid, if you lived in an apartment complex or a community with attached homes, how the bullets will go through the walls and travel apartment after apartment after apartment, if you have the wro..."

"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."