Vice President Kamala Harris claimed during an interview that aired on Friday that she would not confiscate people’s firearms, but she would ban so-called “assault weapons,” which are nothing more than semi-automatic long guns.
Harris made the remarks during an interview with 6abc Action News when the interviewer brought up Harris’ claim during the debate earlier this week that she owned a firearm.
“Where do you draw the line in America on gun ownership and gun use?” the interviewer asked.
“I am a gun owner,” she claimed. “And Tim Walz, my running mate, is also a gun owner. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away. I support the Second Amendment and I support reasonable gun safety laws. Part of my approach to this is, I was a career prosecutor for most of my career. I have personally prosecuted homicide cases. I have personally looked at autopsies. I have personally seen what assault weapons do to the human body.”
“And so I feel very strongly that it is consistent with the Second Amendment and your right to own a gun to also say we need an assault weapons ban,” she continued. “They’re literally tools of war. They were literally designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly.”
Harris’ claim that so-called “assault weapons” are “literally tools of war” is false.
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The weapons that she is referring to are the civilian versions of weapons that militaries and law enforcement agencies use. They do not have the ability to burst fire, which is typically 3 rounds per each pull of the trigger, nor do they have the ability to fire full-auto, which allows the weapon to repeatedly fire until it runs out of ammunition with a single pull of the trigger as long as the operator does not release the trigger.
“I say we need universal background checks,” she claimed, even though people already have to undergo a background check to purchase a firearm from an FFL. “The majority of NRA members support that. Why? Because it’s just reasonable. You just might want to know before someone can buy a lethal weapon if they’ve been found by a court to be a danger to themselves or others. You just might want to know.”
WATCH:
WATCH: Kamala Harris claims that she doesn’t want to take anyone’s guns, she just wants to ban them.
NARRATOR: Kamala Harris would try to take our guns too.
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— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 14, 2024
