Kay Bailey Hutchison

LOUISVILLE-- While some comments from speakers at Friday's National Rifle Association Leadership Forum have already been widely reported, a few other gems may have slipped through the cracks.

Here are just of few of the more significant or humorous lines of the day:

• "Does that make us clingers or does that make us Klingons? I don't know, I don't get it." - former Deputy Chief of Staff for George W. Bush, Karl Rove, referencing Senator Barack Obama's (D-Illinois) earlier statement that some rural Americans "cling to guns and religion."

• "It is important that you sign this, because we want to protect every citizen's right to be shot by the Vice President." - Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), on what she told Vice President Dick Cheney to get him to sign the Amicus Curae brief opposing the Washington, D.C. handgun ban.

LOUISVILLE -- The National Rifle Association's Leadership Forum held in Louisville today falls amid a period of limbo for those on either side of the gun control issue. As gun rights advocates gather for the NRA's annual weekend meeting in Kentucky, the United States Supreme Court is considering a case that is seen by legal analysts to be one of the first genuine tests of the Second Amendment.

"This will be the first time in almost 70 years that the Supreme Court will rule on a Second Amendment case. Its decision will have major implications on all Americans," said Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas).

"We have the case before the Supreme Court that is our very best chance, maybe in our lifetimes, to have this settled clearly and unambiguously," Hutchison continued.