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I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time. I really don't understand why Americans can purchase guns so easily and why they use them for sporting purposes.

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.