Rifles Quotations

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.

When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking.

I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle knowledge exists primarily for use.

Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass.

You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.

A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.

I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle.

The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.

Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.

[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.

Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.