With every new mass shooting that rocks the United States, it sparks yet another round of debate on gun control. Should people be allowed to purchase automatic weapons? Should there be reasonable and sensible background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals or people with mental disorders? Would either of these rules actually stop mass shootings from happening? Or should we just scrap the second amendment altogether?

Certainly, there are pros and cons to both sides of the debate, but if you ask some celebrities, they will very firmly say they're on the side of guns. There are actually quite a few celebs that are proud gun owners, and some of them may surprise you.

Here are a few famous people that are very proud to exercise their second amendment rights.

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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt has been a gun owner longer than perhaps anyone else on this list. During promotion for his 2014 film Fury, he revealed that he’d been a gun owner since he’d been in kindergarten. In an interview with Live Magazine, Pitt said, "America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange, but I feel better having a gun. I really do."

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Kelly Clarkson

The multi-Grammy Award-winning singer and actress is also a gun owner. In an interview with US Weekly, Kelly Clarkson shared 25 secrets about her personal life with number 24 on the list being “I have a concealed handgun license.” She’s also said she enjoys skeet shooting but didn’t mention whether or not she owns a shotgun.

Angelina Jolie

You might think that Angelina Joli’s relationship with Brad Pitt may have spurned her to gun ownership, but she was apparently a gun owner well before they married and subsequently divorced. While they were together, the couple got a pair of Cisco 1911 pistols custom engraved. Pitt’s said “Big Papa” while Jolie’s said, “Mama Knows Best”.

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Bruce Willis

Is it any surprise that one of the most prolific action stars of our time owns a gun? In a 2000 interview with USA Weekend Bruce Willis said, "Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.”

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Madonna

Surprised? Don’t be. She lives in New York after all, and living there for any amount of time would make anyone want to be a gun owner. In an interview with Good Morning America, Madonna agreed with the old adage that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” while describing her use of replica guns during a concert.

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Johnny Depp

Another celeb that remembers guns fondly is Johnny Depp, who revealed his time target shooting when he was a kid in a 2009 interview with Star Pulse. "We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns, and at times, submachine guns," Depp said. "When I was a kid, it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans—we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice."

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Clint Eastwood

What list of proud celebrity gun owners would be complete without Dirty Harry himself? A longtime gun owner, a supporter of the NRA, and proponent of shooting “punks” everywhere, Clint Eastwood was once quoted as saying, “I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

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Whoopi Goldberg

Although it seems at odds with her persona on The View, Whoopi Goldberg is a card carrying NRA member. But she does believe in more stringent gun control. “I don’t mind having to register and let them know that I have them,” she said on a previous episode of The View. “I want to know that there’s at least some way to prevent folks who are just getting out from mental institutions [from getting guns].”

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