“If someone is so fearful that, that they’re going to start
using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me
very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!”
- Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) On MSNBC

“Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.” – Sen. Joe Biden,
D-Del/ Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution
inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people,
we should look to limit those guarantees.”
- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United
States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm
by the civilian populace.” – Janet Reno, addressing a 1991
B’nai B’rith gathering in Ft. Lauderdale

“Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a
step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.”
-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, December 1993

Senator Dianne Feinstein, February 5, 1995, CBS’s 60 Minutes:
“If I could have gotten another 51 votes in the Senate
for an outright ban, picking up everyone of them, Mr. and
Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done that.
But I could not do that; the votes were not there.”

“Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans
to feel safe.” – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, quoted by
the Associated Press, November 18, 1993

My bill … establishes a 6-month grace period for the
turning in of all handguns.” – U.S. Representative Major
Owens, Congressional Record, 11/10/93

Twenty years ago, I asked Richard Nixon what he thought
of gun control. His on-the-record reply: ‘Guns are an
abomination.’ Free from fear of gun owners’ retaliation
at the polls, he favored making handguns illegal and
requiring licenses for hunting rifles. – William Safire
(originally from a New York Times column), Los Angeles
Daily News, June 15, 1999, P. 15.

PATRICK KENNEDY (U.S. Congressman, R.I.) “Kennedy said
he favors an outright ban on handguns, but doubts its
palatability in the current political climate.” (Providence
Journal, 4 Jan 99)

Sen. John Chafee: “I believe all handguns should be
abolished” The Associated Press, January 9, 1997

Rep. Charles Schumer: “We’re going to hammer guns on the
anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat
guns into submission!” Press Conference, December 8, 1993

“We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true…”
- U.S. Representative Charles Schumer, quoted on NBC,
November 30, 1993