{"id":2352116,"date":"2024-10-08T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-wanted-to-ban-the-gun-she-now-claims-to-own\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:52:54","slug":"kamala-harris-wanted-to-ban-the-gun-she-now-claims-to-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-wanted-to-ban-the-gun-she-now-claims-to-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Wanted To Ban The Gun She Now Claims To Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-wanted-to-ban-the-gun-she-now-claims-to-own%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2352116&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President Kamala Harris recently asserted her pride in gun ownership and her Second Amendment rights during an interview with Bill Whitaker\u2063 on \u200d&#8221;60 Minutes.&#8221; Despite this claim, her history as a politician, particularly in California, highlights a strong\u2063 record of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cnn-producer-calls-on-network-to-step-in-stop-don-lemons-dangerous-rhetoric-on-gun-violence\/\" title=\"Former CNN Producer Calls On Network To \u2018Step In,\u2019 Stop Don Lemon\u2019s \u2018Dangerous\u2019 Rhetoric On Gun Violence\">supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wont-rule-out-using-executive-orders-to-crackdown-on-second-amendment-rights-white-house\/\" title=\"Biden Won\u2019t Rule Out Using Executive Orders To Crackdown On Second Amendment Rights: White House\">gun control measures<\/a><\/a>, including attempts to ban many firearms.\u200c Harris revealed she owns a Glock but did not specify the model or caliber, \u200cleading to questions about her true stance\u200c on gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have \u200bpointed out that Harris&#8217;s\u2063 background suggests she may have \u2062acquired her gun through special exemptions allowed for law enforcement personnel, meaning she may not have purchased it through conventional avenues open to the public. This has raised concerns about hypocrisy, as her policies when she was California Attorney\u2062 General included tight\u2063 restrictions on handgun sales, making \u2063many popular models unavailable\u200c to average\u200d citizens.<\/p>\n<p>During her political career, \u2064Harris has \u200bbacked various gun control measures, including bans \u2062on \u200dassault weapons and advanced safety requirements that have effectively limited legal\u2064 access to many firearms. Her recent attempts to portray herself as a relatable\u2063 gun owner seem at odds with her history of advocating for stringent gun laws, prompting skepticism about her sincerity regarding \u2063firearm \u2063rights. Critics argue that Harris&#8217;s self-promotion as a gun owner attempts to mask \u2062her long-standing anti-gun policies and \u200bwould position her as the most anti-gun \u2062president in U.S. history if elected.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris has in recent weeks claimed to be a proud gun owner who is not afraid to exercise her Second Amendment right to self-defense. The Democrat&rsquo;s radical gun control track record, especially during her tenure in California politics, however, shows she tried to ban the type of firearm she claims to own.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What kind of gun do you own, and when and why&rsquo;d you get it?&rdquo; &ldquo;60 Minutes&rdquo; Correspondent Bill Whitaker asked Harris during the pair&rsquo;s Oct. 7 sitdown.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have a Glock,&rdquo; Harris claimed.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Contrary to what the Harris campaign&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rav-arora-the-collective-assault-on-vaccine-myocarditis-research\/\" title=\"Rav Arora: The Collective Assault on Vaccine Myocarditis Research\">social media posts suggest<\/a>, &ldquo;Glock,&rdquo; is not a type of firearm, but the name of a popular handgun manufacturing company. Not only should the &ldquo;g&rdquo; in Glock be capitalized to reflect it is a proper noun, but Harris should have elaborated further on what specific type of Glock she claims to own by naming the model and caliber. <\/p>\n<p>She did not, and Whitaker put himself in the camp of corporate media mouthpieces <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/06\/triggered-political-journo-says-shooting-ar-15-for-the-first-time-felt-like-a-meteor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who have no business<\/a> reporting about guns because <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/02\/24\/14-things-everyone-should-understand-about-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they know nothing about them<\/a> by failing to press her further on her vague answer.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, after the VP asserted that she had the firearm &ldquo;for quite some time&rdquo; because &ldquo;my background is in law enforcement,&rdquo; Whitaker wondered if Harris had ever &ldquo;fired&rdquo; her weapon.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yes, of course,&rdquo; Harris said through laughs. &ldquo;At a shooting range. Yes, of course I have.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo; CBS sitdown may not have given Americans much more clarity on the firearm she purports to possess, but it did reveal her stunning hypocrisy on gun ownership.<\/p>\n<h2>Rules For Thee, Not For Me<\/h2>\n<p>Harris may have spent the majority of the last decade in various condos and houses in Washington, D.C., but she and the Second Gentleman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/kamala-harriss-homes-heres-where-the-vice-president-has-lived\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still own<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/kamala-harris-neighbors-brentwood-home-b2603926.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">routinely visit<\/a> their California mansion. If Harris acquired her &ldquo;Glock&rdquo; years ago, as she suggested in her &ldquo;60 Minutes&rdquo; interview, it would have had to come off of California&rsquo;s preapproved list of &ldquo;safe&rdquo; handguns.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo; quip about having a &ldquo;background in law enforcement,&rdquo; however, could mean she purchased her pistol under the off-roster exemptions offered exclusively to &ldquo;authorized peace officer&rdquo; bureaucrats, which include the district attorney and Department of Justice offices where she spent years.<\/p>\n<p>Every Glock pistol is equipped with a <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.glock.com\/en\/Technology\/Safe-Action-System\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trigger, firing pin, and drop safety combination<\/a> designed to prevent accidental firing. Yet, under California law, most Glock models are considered &ldquo;unsafe handguns&rdquo; because they do not meet the <a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/statute\/california-codes\/california-penal-code\/part-6-control-of-deadly-weapons\/title-4-firearms\/division-10-special-rules-relating-to-particular-types-of-firearms-or-firearm-equipment\/chapter-4-handguns-and-firearm-safety\/article-4-unsafe-handgun-and-related-definitions\/section-31910-unsafe-handgun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state&rsquo;s stringent safety or firing requirements.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/firearms\/certified-handguns\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">handgun sale roster<\/a> maintained by Attorney General Rob Bonta, the only Glock guns permitted for sale in the Golden Gate State come from the manufacturer&rsquo;s Generation 3 line, which <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.safariland.com\/blog\/glock-19-gen-3-review-the-classic-glock\/#:~:text=In%201998%2C%20Glock%20released%20their,which%20weren't%20so%20beloved.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started in 1998<\/a> and was grandfathered into the roster.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>That sale roster became even more exclusive when Harris, as California attorney general, attempted to enforce experimental microstamping of firing pins as a requirement for any sellable guns.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No new semiautomatic handguns entered the roster after 2013. Kamala Harris&rsquo;s action meant the overwhelming majority of Californians who were not exempted from the law could not purchase popular handgun models released after 2013, such as all Gen 4 &amp; 5 GLOCKs, the SIG SAUER P365, Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P 2.0 models, and many many more,&rdquo; Kostas Moros, an attorney representing the California Rifle &amp; Pistol Association, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shootingnewsweekly.com\/gun-control\/kamala-harris-should-be-asked-about-her-decade-long-ban-on-modern-handgun-sales-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/michellawyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023-03-20-Order-Granting-MPI2240711.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 court ruling<\/a> and a stay from the Ninth Circuit allowed the addition of &ldquo;several&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigsauer.com\/p320-m18-california.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new handgun models<\/a>&rdquo; to the roster. Yet, thanks to actions by the Democrat-controlled California legislature, Moros noted, &ldquo;microstamping will return if the current Attorney General confirms by 2028 something that Kamala Harris falsely claimed was already the case in 2013 when she implemented the handgun ban.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Smoking Gun<\/h2>\n<p>If elected, Harris would no doubt be the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/31\/if-elected-kamala-harris-would-be-the-most-anti-gun-president-in-u-s-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most anti-gun president in U.S. history.<\/a> Yet, the Democrat has spent the last two months leading up to the election trying to pretend she&rsquo;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MeetThePress\/status\/1837844488414257446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relatable<\/a> firearms moderate.<\/p>\n<p>Harris kicked off her coverup in September when she revealed her alleged gun ownership during her first presidential debate with former President Donald Trump <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This business about taking everyone&rsquo;s guns away, Tim Walz and I are both gun owners,&rdquo; Harris said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not taking anybody&rsquo;s guns away.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vice President Harris: Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We&#8217;re not taking anybody&#8217;s guns away. So stop with the continuous lying <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qftn7RQQHn\">pic.twitter.com\/Qftn7RQQHn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHQ\/status\/1833696761270997038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a sitdown with Oprah Winfrey less than two weeks later, Harris claimed that if &ldquo;someone breaks in my house, they gettin&rsquo; shot.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a gun owner&hellip;If someone breaks in my house, they&rsquo;re getting shot, sorry. I probably should not have said that. Hahaha! My staff will deal with that later. Hahaha!&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wF6KufDqfY\">pic.twitter.com\/wF6KufDqfY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarMachineRR\/status\/1836942057597722795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Harris appears to believe that promoting herself as a proud gun owner will make her look Second Amendment savvy. She can&rsquo;t, however, erase her radical hostility towards firearms. <\/p>\n<p>As VP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ogvp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gun control czar<\/a> Harris backed restricting gun access for law-abiding citizens via a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/24\/kamala-harris-says-no-one-is-taking-away-guns-while-biden-and-democrats-gear-up-to-do-just-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal ban<\/a> on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. When she ran for president for the first time in 2020, Harris pledged to use executive actions to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/14\/flashback-kamala-harris-laughs-off-bidens-rejection-of-executive-orders-on-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">curb AR-15 imports, mandate universal background checks, and ban semiautomatic rifles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even before her White House tenure, Harris, as San Francisco district attorney, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.thereload.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Document-_-The-Mercury-News-Archives.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sponsored<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.thereload.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/09\/November8_2005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2005 ballot measure<\/a> that sought to strip law-abiding Californians of their Second Amendment rights. Under the proposition, which passed but faced immense legal scrutiny and eventual death in court, the gun-owning Americans Harris is trying to win over with her personal firearm rhetoric were prohibited from buying, selling, or owning handguns.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>In 2007, during her promotion of one of &ldquo;the strictest anti-gun laws in the county,&rdquo; Harris claimed law enforcement could barge into legal gun owners&rsquo; homes to ensure their compliance with gun storage safety mandates.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-harris-immediately-regrets-making-gun-threat-live-on-air-should-not-have-said-that\/\" title=\"Watch: Kamala Harris Immediately Regrets Making Gun Threat Live on Air - &#039;Should Not Have Said That&#039;\">locked home doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t mean that we&rsquo;re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you&rsquo;re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,&rdquo; Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/07-290_amicus_district_attorneys.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed onto an amicus brief<\/a> in <em>D.C. v. Heller&nbsp;<\/em>which argued gun-toting individuals like her don&rsquo;t have a right to defend themselves because &ldquo;the Second Amendment applies only to federal legislation, not to legislation of the states or local governments&rdquo; and &ldquo;provides only a militia-related right to bear arms.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When the Supreme Court ruled banning handguns and mandating firearms be stored disassembled is an unconstitutional infringement on Americans&rsquo; right to self-protection, Harris criticized the decision. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Just after Heller was decided, Kamala Harris gave a presser with Newsom criticizing the decision. Thankfully, Chuck had saved the link to the video in an old memo. The video only had 4,200 views on Youtube, so we assume few have seen it.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded it, incase it vanishes from&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b9XebJ3HES\">pic.twitter.com\/b9XebJ3HES<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorosKostas\/status\/1839426614469276076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When it comes to gun ownership and the Second Amendment, Harris has successfully established herself as a true enemy of the people. The Democratic presidential nominee is only shooting herself in the foot when she attempts to portray herself as a down-to-earth firearm lover.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VP Kamala Harris claims to be a proud gun owner, yet her past efforts in California aimed to ban the firearm she now owns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2352117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/53898130205_97039c3327_o-scaled-e1728400981624.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[16596,6636,32438,8828,5894],"class_list":["post-2352116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-gun-control","tag-hypocrisy","tag-kamala-harris","tag-ownership","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/53898130205_97039c3327_o-scaled-e1728400981624.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}