Harry: Do you pack a gun?
Travolta/Chili: Not really. Get Shorty 1995 starring Gene Hackman & John Travolta & Rene Russo & Danny DeVito & Dennis Farina & Bett Midler & Delroy Lindo & James Gandolfini & Jon Gries & Renne Props & David Paymer et al, director Barry Sonnenfeld
Sometimes you do your best work when you’ve got a gun to your head. ibid. Chili to bird
This is it. This is Calvess’ gun ... What the fuck are you doing with a dead cop’s gun? Narc 2002 starring Ray Liotta & Jason Patric & Chi McBride & Lloyd Adams & Anne Openshaw & Stacey Farber & Alan van Sprang & John Ortiz et al, Joe Carnahan, goodie to baddie
Nothing bothered me. The .220 felt nice and snug against my appendix. Farewell, My Lovely aka Murder, My Sweet 1944 starring Dick Powell & Claire Trevor & Anne Shirley & Otto Kruger & Miles Mander & Mike Mazurki & Douglas Walton & Ralf Harolde & Esther Howard & Ernie Adams et al, director Edward Dmytryk
You’re lucky it was only a .22 – they leave a nice clean small hole. Baby Face Nelson 1957 starring Mickey Rooney & Carolyn Jones & Cedric Hardwicke & Leo Gordon & John Hoyt & Jack Elam & Anthony Caruso & Ted de Corsia et al, director Don Siegel, doctor to Nelson
What kind of ammunition do you want? Oh we got a lot of guns. We got long-colts, short-colts, ballheads, flatnose, powerpoints … Crash 2004 starring Karina Arroyava & Sandra Bullock & Dato Bakhtadze & Thandie Newton & Terrence Howard & Don Cheadle & Matt Dillon & Jennifer Esposito & Keith David et al, director Paul Haggis, gun shop
Gangsta #1: Why aren’t we scared?
Gangsta #2: ’Cause we got guns? ibid.
This is a .44 Magnum. The most powerful handgun in the world. And it could blow your head clean off. Do you feel lucky? Magnum Force 1973 starring Clint Eastwood & Hal Holbrook & Mitch Ryan & David Soul & Felton Perry & Robert Urich & Kip Niven & John Mitchum & Margaret Avery & Bob McClurg et al, director Ted Post, opening remarks
With a gun you feel more dangerous. 25th Hour 2002 starring Edward Norton & Philip Seymour Hoffman & Rosario Dawson & Anna Paquin & Brian Cox & Barry Pepper & Tony Siragusa et al, director Spike Lee, gangsta
It’s easy: you just pull the trigger. The Lady from Shanghai 1948 starring Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles & Everett Sloane & Glenn Anders & Ted de Corsia & Erskine Sanford & Gus Schilling & Louis Merrill et al, director Orson Welles, Welles
I found the gun; you killed Grisby; you’re the killer. ibid. Welles to Hayworth
Will you take care of this gun? Thelma & Louise 1991 starring Susan Sarandon & Geena Davis & Brad Pitt & Harvey Keitel & Michael Madsen & Christopher McDonald & Stephen Tobolowsky & Timothy Carhart et al, director Ridley Scott, Thelma to Louise
Tuco: When did you unload it?
Blondie: Last night. You see, in this world there’s two kind of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You’re digging. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly [Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo] 1966 starring Clint Eastwood & Lee van Cleef & Eli Wallach & Aldo Giuffre & Al Mulock & Antonio Casas & John Bartha & Claudio Scarchillio & Sandro Scarchilli & Antonio Molion Rojo, director Sergio Leone
We know how to pull a damned trigger, don’t we? Pale Rider 1985 starring Clint Eastwood & Michael Moriarty & Carrie Snodgress & Christopher Penn & Richard Dysart & Sydney Penny & Richard Kiel & Doug McGrath & Jeffrey Weissman & John Russell et al, director Clint Eastwood, tenant
Give me the gun. True Grit 1969 starring John Wayne & Glen Campbell & Kim Darby & Robert Duvall & Jeff Corey & Dennis Hopper & Strother Martin & Ron Soble & John Fiedler et al, director Henry Hathaway, Frank Ross to Tom Chaney
You’re nothing but a filthy gunman. Best of the Badmen 1951 starring Robert Ryan & Claire Trevor & Jack Buetel & Robert Preston & Walter Brennan & Bruce Cabot & John Archer & Lawrence Tierney & Barton MacLane & Tom Tyler et al, director William D Russell, Mrs Fowler to carpetbagger
That pistol there lets you shoot and kill with precision from two hundred and fifty feet. And it doesn’t just give you the satisfaction of killing. It lets you kill with impunity which is a whole different ball game. Believe me, it’s an extraordinary thing to kill with impunity. A rare shift in perspective, you know. Human beings’ life story. If we’re licensed to be monsters we end up having just one desire – to truly be monsters. This Must Be the Place 2011 starring Sean Penn & Frances McDormand & Judd Hirsch & Eve Hewson & Kerry Condon & Harry Dean Stanton & Joyce van Patten & David Byrne & Olwen Fouere et al, director Paolo Sorrentinol
The minie-ball is used by the North and South alike. Demand for this killer bullet runs so high that an entire industry springs up supplying minie-balls to the front line. America: The Story of the US: Civil War, History 2010
In Britain the highest rate of gun crime is in rural areas. This is Britain with Andrew Marr, BBC 2001
They [Royal Family] are never happier than when they’ve got a gun in their hands, their mother [Diana] noted. Royal Babylon *****
She has an 80% approval rating in Alaska ... This is a woman with a gun, John. Game Change 2012 starring Julianne Moore & Woody Harrelson & Ed Harris & Peter MacNicol & Jamey Sheridan & Sarah Paulson & Ron Livingston & Melissa Farman & Kevin Bigley et all, director Jay Roach
When she talks about guns, you can tell it’s for real. ibid. voter
It became apparent to me that [CIA] guns were going one way and drugs were going the other way. Mike Ruppert
A wave of lethal weapons from hand-guns to machine-guns is flooding the island from the US. Drugs Inc s3e8: Zombie Island, National Geographic 2013
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Richard Buckminster Fuller
From my cold dead hands. Charlton Heston, holding rifle aloft at meeting of NRA ten days after shootings at Columbine
You know there are only two things more beautiful than a good gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. Red River 1948 starring John Wayne & Montgomery Clift & Walter Brennan & Joanne Dru & Coleen Gray & Harry Carey & John Ireland & Noah Beery & Harry Carey & Chief Yowlachie & Paul Fix et al, director Howard Hawks
Those who write don’t shoot, and those who shoot don’t write. Robert Kennedy
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. US Constitution 2nd Amendment
The National Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world. Cecil Andrus
Man, you are all marksmen – don’t one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes. Israel Putnam at Bunker Hill 1775
There was a little man, and he had a little gun. Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book c.1744
On 2nd June 2010 Derek Bird, a fifty-two-year-old taxi driver, drove through the country lanes and villages of West Cumbria on a killing spree that would leave eleven people dead. Tim Shaw on Guns, Current 2011
While Jill sees guns as a dangerous, others see them as a right. ibid.
It took the New World by storm. Now it may be triggering a Brave New World. And in between, the gun has touched every corner of America. Tonight: the unique story of guns in America. After Newtown: Guns in America, PBS 2013
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You only have to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. Sarah Brady
The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. ‘Make it evil’, he’d been told. ‘Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.’ Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy