On September 29, 2012, Heil spoke at the 27th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in Orlando, Florida on a panel entitled “The Most Dangerous Election of Our Lifetime.” Heil spoke about the November 2012 presidential election, stating, “I contend that this is the most dangerous election of our lifetime … Let’s talk about judges. I’ve got a thing to say about them: they’re getting old. The Supreme Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals … During the next presidential term, three of the Supremes will turn eighty. We’ve had Second Amendment victories on the Supreme Court by one vote. One vote. Can you imagine what [President Barack] Obama will do if he’s unchained, if he gets a second term? Appoint radicals to the Supreme Court. Can you imagine two more of [Justice Sonia] Sotomayor and ]Justice Elena] Kagen? Or possibly three more? What else is he gonna do, do you think? Executive Order the Small Arms Treaty … He’s gonna try to push having guns as a health issue. He’ll ban them through Obamacare. I have no doubt about it … What I would like to happen is, when we all wake up on November 7th, assuming we can actually go to sleep that Tuesday night, I want to hear that Americans have overwhelmingly chosen the pro-Second Amendment candidate, the one that’s always been proud to be an American. And I also want to hear that the American people have spoken loudly and clearly and have said, ‘Mr. Obama, you’re fired.’” Heil was referring to a U.N. Small Arms Treaty which would set only international standards for the import/export of conventional weapons—leaving it to individual countries to “regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership, including through national constitutional protections on private ownership.”

On June 8, 2012, in an interview at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) event in Chicago with Cameron Gray of NRA News, Heil stated, “There’s not enough women involved [in the pro-gun community]. Yes, women want to protect themselves because; after all, think about it, it is self defense. It’s not waiting for a boyfriend or a husband to protect you, or calling the police. Because they can’t be there, they would love to be there to protect you, but they can’t. So, it’s self defense. More women need to really realize that what they have to do is get involved, be educated, and find out what they need to do to be able to defend themselves. And a firearm–Sam Colt said it best–it’s the great equalizer. Talk about equal rights.” When asked why it is important to defeat President Barack Obama in the 2012 elections, Heil replied, laughing, “That’s a question that goes without answer, isn’t it? We all know. We all know. We need to get him out because he does have an anti-gun agenda … You hear it every four years: this is the most important election of your lifetime. Well, guess what? It really is the most important election in this country, in the history of this country.”

In a July 1, 2001, during a speech at a United Nations protest in New York City, Heil stated, “Waiting periods for guns are killing women … A woman has to depend upon herself for protection. The police cannot be there; her father, her brother, her boyfriend, or husband all cannot always be there to protect her. Are we willing to trade the right every women should have to self-defense in exchange for so-called governmental security? Are you willing to subject your wives, daughters, mothers, and aunts, to the mercy of rapists? Because that's what it boils down to.”