The effect of their (the administration's) policy, by not taking the drug dealer with a gun, the violent felon with a gun, and the gang member with a gun off the street is somebody later gets killed.

Gun buyback programs are largely gestures for Mr. Rogers' neighborhood on TV. The world of drug dealers and gang members and violent felons -- they don't live in that neighborhood.

Gun buyback programs are largely gestures for Mr. Rogers' neighborhood on TV, ... The world of drug dealers and gang members and violent felons -- they don't live in that neighborhood.

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.

What we see is the president now dusting off every tired, old gun control bill that's been around his administration for the last six years -- waiting periods, one-gun-a-month schemes, imports or magazine bans, mandatory locks -- tired old schemes that will have no real impact on this criminal culture of violence in this country,

[The National Rifle Association, the major voice of the powerful gun lobby, greeted the news joyfully.] This is a historic victory for the NRA. Freedom, truth and justice prevailed, ... No other industry is forced to defend themselves when a violent criminal they do not know, have never met and cannot control, misuses a legal non-defective product. American firearms manufacturers will now receive the same fair treatment.