Vice President Kamala Harris recently drew the ire of Second Amendment supporters by claiming to own a “Glock” handgun, which is a sign of her opposition to bans and restrictions on these types of guns. This is in contrast to the previous support.
“I have a Glock, and I’ve had one for quite some time,” Harris said in a recent interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” citing her “law enforcement background” as the reason for owning one. Ta.
The remarks come after Harris and her campaign have repeatedly emphasized that she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are gun owners, and in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, said they are gun owners. This was done after stating that anyone who entered the area would be “shot.”
But throughout Harris’ long career, which included stints as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, she repeatedly expressed support for banning or restricting citizens’ legal possession of handguns. She also argued at the federal level that handgun bans do not violate Second Amendment rights.
Taniece Reed, CEO and founder of Pretty Shooters Firearms Training, talks about empty Glock handgun parts while teaching a class in her office in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. (Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital asked the Harris campaign about the model of Glock handgun the vice president owns, but did not receive an answer.
“Throughout her political career, Ms. Harris has been an ardent anti-gun advocate and advocate for law-abiding, peace-loving Americans,” said Randy Kozucci, executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA). “I have supported measures to ban people from owning handguns.” he told FOX News Digital.
“That position is not only radical in modern American politics, it goes further than most gun control activists are willing to admit.”
As San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris sponsored a 2005 ballot measure known as Proposition H that would prohibit San Franciscans from making, selling, or possessing handguns unless they are in law enforcement, the military, or private security personnel. I asked for it. The ballot measure was passed by voters but ultimately invalidated by a court in 2008 before it could take effect.
Despite opposition to Proposition H, Harris stepped up her campaign to restrict handguns in 2008. Harris, along with several other district attorneys, wrote an amicus brief to the Supreme Court arguing that the handgun ban was not unconstitutional. The court considered the issue of handgun control in D.C. v. Heller, widely considered the most prominent Second Amendment case in the nation. The court ultimately ruled that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to own a handgun for self-defense and other lawful purposes.
Kamala Harris once said police could make surprise visits to the homes of legal gun owners to check on safe storage conditions.


A recent Wall Street Journal report said that the “most surprising” group of new gun owners in the United States are Democratic voters. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Additionally, in 2013, as California’s attorney general, Harris took steps that California Second Amendment experts said severely limited the types of handguns residents could own.
Under California’s Dangerous Handguns Act, passed in 2001, only certain approved handguns can be purchased, sold, and possessed within the state. Harris further restricted that list when she acted to certify “microstamping” on all handguns in the state.
“Manufacturers have to put this little raised number on the inside of the cartridge and on the firing pin, so if police find the cartridge at a crime scene, they can trace it back to the gun,” said Chuck Michel. . , a California lawyer who filed a lawsuit against Prop. H on behalf of the NRA.
He said the measure “goes from tens of thousands of handgun models that people can purchase in California to just a few hundred models.”
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Michel also noted that Harris, as California attorney general, is trying to block efforts to eliminate the state’s requirement that gun owners show “good cause” to obtain a concealed carry permit. also mentioned.
“Kamala Harris has never been averse to gun control laws,” Michelle said. “She supported everything the ultra-progressive San Francisco City Council had ever proposed. She tried to limit concealed carry by intervening in court to block the 9th Circuit’s victory. She clearly supported Prop H. And she supported Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban in court,” she outlined in the Heller case, which she led, finding microstamping. ”


Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris (Fox News)
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But while critics like Michel say Harris is a hypocrite for being a gun owner, Clark Neily, one of the co-counsel who successfully argued the Heller case, said Harris said he doesn’t think there’s anything “hypocritical or duplicitous” about owning a gun. On the other hand, they also take the position that the Constitution does not protect the right to own a handgun.
“For example, many sensible people believe that women should have access to abortions, and that they themselves have had or are about to have abortions, but that there is still a constitutional right to abortion. I don’t believe that.