During a press conference in Huntsville, Alabama on February 17, 2014, Kollitides opined that the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act of 2013—enacted into law following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut—is "unconstitutional." "We're all disappointed by the SAFE Act" and "hopeful it will be overturned," he added. Less than two months earlier, on December 31, 2013, Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny of the Federal District Court in Buffalo upheld most of the SAFE Act following a legal challenge by the Second Amendment Foundation. Judge Skretny said that the provisions of the act "further the state's important interest in public safety ... It does not totally disarm New York's citizens; and it does not meaningfully jeopardize their right to self-defense."

Kollitides broke his silence about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school on June 14, 2013, discussing the tragedy with Washington Times columnist Emily Miller. Kollitides served as CEO of Freedom Group, Inc. when the shooting took place. Freedom Group made the Bushmaster military-style assault rifle used by Adam Lanza to kill 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. "It’s very easy to blame an inanimate object," Kollitides told Miller. "Any kind of instrument in the wrong hands can be put to evil use ... Only two things could have potentially stopped him: his mother locking up her guns and an armed guard. Even then, he could have driven his stolen car into a playground full of kids. He was intent on killing, which we know is already illegal." Regarding the Freedom Group's marketing of semiautomatic AR-15 assault rifles, Kollitides said, "It has nothing to do with our marketing campaign and everything to do with a reputation for high quality and performance. Do you race a Ford Pinto or a Ferrari?" Finally, Kollitides indicated his opposition to a recently defeated amendment by Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) that would have required background checks on certain private sales of firearms that are formally advertised through a commercial venue. Kollitides claimed, without evidence, that the amendment would have led to "backdoor registration" of firearms. In fact, the amendment only sought to expand the nation's longstanding background check system, which does not register any firearms.

On the October 18, 2012 broadcast of “Cam & Company,” Cam Edwards spoke to George Kollitides, CEO of Remington Arms. Discussing the upcoming 2012 presidential election, Kollitides stated, “I think this will be the most important election of our lifetime. The next president is going to be in an incredibly powerful position to appoint [U.S.] Supreme Court justices. It’s one thing to legislate a gun ban. That can always be overturned by a future president, a future Congress, and Congress can fight it, of course, and hope they don’t get vetoed and overruled. We’ve had the benefit of a strict interpretist Supreme Court which has been conservative and really held up the core traditional values of our country. So, I don’t necessarily just worry about the next four years of an Obama presidency, I worry about my kids’ and my grandkids’ futures, because if we change face of the Supreme Court, we’re looking at a 30-plus-year uphill battle … Not only will the Second Amendment be under attack if we go to a liberal non-strict-interpretative court, but it’ll be the entire American way of life. When we appoint liberal judges, they take it upon themselves not to interpret the laws but to legislate the laws and there’s a lot of liberal courts doing that. So, the appeal needs to be not just to gun owners, although that’s obviously critically important…but I think many of the things we think about, all of our freedoms will be at risk. You know the liberal courts and the liberal politicians believe they know what’s best for Americans. They’re gonna tell us when we have to get health care. They’re gonna tell us what time we have to get out of bed every day. They’re gonna tell us where we have to go to work. They’re gonna take our money and redistribute it. This is an issue that every American needs to be worried about.”