Jeff Sessions in Fox News Sunday interviews during 2016

On Gun Control: Overturning Heller means cities could and would ban guns

SESSIONS: The Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. If the Heller court were to be reversed what that would mean is that any city, county or state could completely ban the use of firearms in America. It would be the greatest evisceration of the protections of the Second Amendment since the founding of the republic. It was 5-4 in the Supreme Court. Now that Scalia has passed away, the next president will appoint the 5th vote. If Hillary Clinton is elected president, she will appoint a judge who will declare it not to be a personal right, but would say that it could be constricted by local governments. Imagine the cities in America that, if they had the power, would immediately ban firearms. Washington DC had to have a federal court overrule their ban of all firearms in Washington. Heller is the only thing that protects us, it was 5-4 and it could flip 5-4 the other way if Clinton appoints the next justice.

On Homeland Security: Terrorists since 9/11 are mostly Islamic; confront them

SESSIONS: Well, it certainly looks like another one of the extremist attacks, Islamic extremism. My subcommittee this week concluded that we've had over 570 individuals either convicted or charged or connected to terrorism since 9/11.

Q: This is the Senate Judiciary Committee report, that 570 convicted or indicted since 9/11?

SESSIONS: Since 9/11. And it's not stopping. We see apparently today more of these attacks are coming. It's a real part of the threat that we face, and if we can't say directly that there is an extremist element within Islam that's dangerous to the world and has to be confronted, we need to slow down and be careful about those we admit into the country. About 2/3 of those people that were charged were foreign born, almost all Islamic individuals. So, it's a serious matter. I wish it weren't so. I wish there were some easy solution, but there's not. We have to be more vigilant.