You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.

Americans are ready to hate somebody -- and it's going to be the gun industry.

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

Today's N.R.A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly focused on one goal: selling more guns.

... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.