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’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.
“What kind of gun do you own, and when and why’d you get it?” “60 Minutes” Correspondent Bill Whitaker asked Harris during the pair’s Oct. 7 sitdown.
“I have a Glock,” Harris claimed.
Contrary to what the Harris campaign’s social media posts suggest, “Glock,” is not a type of firearm, but the name of a popular handgun manufacturing company. Not only should the “g” 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.
She did not, and Whitaker put himself in the camp of corporate media mouthpieces who have no business reporting about guns because they know nothing about them by failing to press her further on her vague answer.
Instead, after the VP asserted that she had the firearm “for quite some time” because “my background is in law enforcement,” Whitaker wondered if Harris had ever “fired” her weapon.
“Yes, of course,” Harris said through laughs. “At a shooting range. Yes, of course I have.”
Harris’ 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.
Rules For Thee, Not For Me
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 still own and routinely visit their California mansion. If Harris acquired her “Glock” years ago, as she suggested in her “60 Minutes” interview, it would have had to come off of California’s preapproved list of “safe” handguns.
Harris’ quip about having a “background in law enforcement,” however, could mean she purchased her pistol under the off-roster exemptions offered exclusively to “authorized peace officer” bureaucrats, which include the district attorney and Department of Justice offices where she spent years.
Every Glock pistol is equipped with a trigger, firing pin, and drop safety combination designed to prevent accidental firing. Yet, under California law, most Glock models are considered “unsafe handguns” because they do not meet the state’s stringent safety or firing requirements.
According to the handgun sale roster maintained by Attorney General Rob Bonta, the only Glock guns permitted for sale in the Golden Gate State come from the manufacturer’s Generation 3 line, which started in 1998 and was grandfathered into the roster.
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.
“No new semiautomatic handguns entered the roster after 2013. Kamala Harris’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 & 5 GLOCKs, the SIG SAUER P365, Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0 models, and many many more,” Kostas Moros, an attorney representing the California Rifle & Pistol Association, recently wrote.
A 2023 court ruling and a stay from the Ninth Circuit allowed the addition of “several new handgun models” to the roster. Yet, thanks to actions by the Democrat-controlled California legislature, Moros noted, “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.”
Smoking Gun
If elected, Harris would no doubt be the most anti-gun president in U.S. history. Yet, the Democrat has spent the last two months leading up to the election trying to pretend she’s a relatable firearms moderate.
Harris kicked off her coverup in September when she revealed her alleged gun ownership during her first presidential debate with former President Donald Trump
“This business about taking everyone’s guns away, Tim Walz and I are both gun owners,” Harris said. “We’re not taking anybody’s guns away.”
In a sitdown with Oprah Winfrey less than two weeks later, Harris claimed that if “someone breaks in my house, they gettin’ shot.”
Harris appears to believe that promoting herself as a proud gun owner will make her look Second Amendment savvy. She can’t, however, erase her radical hostility towards firearms.
As VP, gun control czar Harris backed restricting gun access for law-abiding citizens via a federal ban 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 curb AR-15 imports, mandate universal background checks, and ban semiautomatic rifles.
Even before her White House tenure, Harris, as San Francisco district attorney, sponsored a 2005 ballot measure 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.
In 2007, during her promotion of one of “the strictest anti-gun laws in the county,” Harris claimed law enforcement could barge into legal gun owners’ homes to ensure their compliance with gun storage safety mandates.
“We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,” Harris said.
In 2008, Harris signed onto an amicus brief in D.C. v. Heller which argued gun-toting individuals like her don’t have a right to defend themselves because “the Second Amendment applies only to federal legislation, not to legislation of the states or local governments” and “provides only a militia-related right to bear arms.”
When the Supreme Court ruled banning handguns and mandating firearms be stored disassembled is an unconstitutional infringement on Americans’ right to self-protection, Harris criticized the decision.
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.
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.
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