But a Sept. 17 Instagram post by the National Rifle Association falsely claims, “All Kamala Harris knows about guns is that she wants to ban them.” In the video, Harris can be heard calling for universal background checks and closing the so-called gun-show loopholethat allows unlicensed individuals to sell firearms without performing background checks.
The post claims that Harris wants to “ban law-abiding Americans from owning [guns].” Another Instagram post by the NRA on Sept. 18 claims, “Kamala Harris will seize your legally owned guns.”
But the claims misrepresent the vice president’s position on firearms. While Harris supports a ban on so-called assault weapons, her plan would not apply to such weapons purchased before the proposed ban would take effect. The U.S. had a similar ban in place for 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, on the sale of certain semiautomatic weapons, as we have written before.
When asked for comment about the claim that Harris wants to “ban law-abiding Americans from owning” guns, an NRA spokesperson directed us to a recent post on X by Harris’ official vice presidential account that reads, “Congress must renew the assault weapons ban.”
At a Sept. 19 campaign event with former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, Harris told families of school shooting victims that “for far too long on the issue of gun violence, some people have been pushing a really false choice to suggest you’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away. I’m in favor of the Second Amendment, and I’m in favor of assault weapons bans, universal background checks, red flag laws, and these are just common sense.”
The policy section of Harris’ campaign website also reflects this position, stating that, “She’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks, and support red flag laws that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.”
— Logan Chapman in NRA Posts Misrepresent Harris’ Position on Gun Ownership
She doesn’t want to ban your guns. She just wants to ban your guns. And that’s not a ban on guns.
Factcheckers. lol.
In the not-distant future, an AWB will be granted cert. by the SCotUS and be heard, then decided.
Once decided in our favor, (obviously), magazine-fed semi-autos will be protected, and they can go pound sand…
Kamala says: “Black guns should be banned because they are scary. Now, don’t confuse that with guns owned by black people. Black people are not scary. I am a black people. But if a black person owns a black gun, the gun is scary but not the black person. It is the same as if a white people owns a black gun. It is not the person who is scary, it is the gun. We know that guns kill people, no matter what color the people are. We also know that pink guns kill far fewer people than black guns because pink is not a scary color. That is why, when I am president, I will push for legislation that mandates all firearms be made only in non-scary colors. That will reduce gun violence.
You forgot the closing “.
Happiness is a hurricane missing here, prayers for those where it will hit… 🙁
BS … she wants to ban guns, period, she just wants to start with the MSR.
As DA in San Francisco, Harris supported an outright ban on the sale and possession of handguns. She backed Proposition H in 2005; a ballot referendum in San Francisco that would have outlawed handguns and forced existing owners to hand them over to the local government. She backed a ban on gun shows at the Cow Palace, claiming without evidence that the gun show was fueling illegal sales of firearms. She co-signed an amicus brief in 2007 arguing that the Second Amendment doesn’t protect an individual right to keep and bear arms, only bearing arms while serving in a militia. She even declared that law enforcement had the authority to enter the locked homes of legal gun owners, at any time without warrant or cause or warning, to inspect how their firearms are stored.
In 2019, Harris not only called for a ban on so-called assault weapons but said it would be a “good idea” to include a mandatory “buyback” of tens of millions of lawfully owned semi-automatic firearms. In case no one realizes, when the government includes the term ‘mandatory’ in relation to anything property it means they can seize it (even using force) if they wish if you do not comply to turn it over to them. In other words a mandatory “buyback” is a forced confiscation, you accept what they want to pay you and turn it over to them or if you don’t they can use force to take it – which in terms of guns means they will probably be trying to kill a lot of folks because a lot of folks are not going to surrender their constitutional right to an unconstitutional tyrannical move like a ‘mandatory’ falsely termed ‘buy back’. In short if Harris did try a ‘mandatory’ falsely termed ‘buy back’ forced confiscation, its tantamount to declaring war by tyranny and she will have started a war…. ya know, just like the British did that sparked off the Revolutionary War.
Yes, she wants to ban guns, all of them, and its not just about guns either, its about all the constitutional rights for everyone the democrats have been continually attacking and infringing since Biden took office to soften up the ‘legal battle field’ for a round two democrat administration where they will just out right infringe and take openly when ever they want because now they know it takes years for SCOTUS to put a stop to it and even if SCOTUS steps in they will simply ignore SCOTUS and do as they please. Yes she wants to ban guns, and take your rights and liberty and your life if she can get away with it. But she has already been at it all these years including enslaving free people to do forced labor while she was the AG in California.
Factcheck.org is either completely ignorant or shilling for Harris.
This woman has spent her entire political career trying to take or control constitutional rights in one form or another. Now all of a sudden its “Hey, I’m a gun owner, I support the second amendment, no one is going to take your guns.” Its the same exact thing Joe Biden said and today we have an ATF weaponized against innocent American citizens making defacto law to bypass congress because Joe decreed it to be with rule by fiat through executive order and innocent people have been killed and terrorized at the hand of government with the goal to take a constitutional right anyway by creating unconstitutional and unlawful defacto law they enforce because they say so without one ounce of actual authority to do so because they self-interpret to satisfy Joes agenda.
And when they get tired of guns… they are going to come for the rest of the constitutional rights for everyone that Joe and Kamala have already been attacking all during this administration.
Different name same anti 2nd Amendment ideology. it doesn’t matter who it is, if it’s a democrat they want to ban the 2nd Amendment and have been playing to long game to accomplish it for decades. Death by 1000 regulations.