Why Harris reminded Us voters she is a gun owner
The Independent|September 12, 2024
Kamala Harris made an admission that may have surprised some viewers of the presidential debate against Donald Trump: she is a gun owner.
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Why Harris reminded Us voters she is a gun owner

During Tuesday night’s debate, Trump accused Harris of having “a plan to confiscate everybody’s guns” if she is elected in November. Responding to the false claim, the vice president said: “This business about taking everyone’s guns away – Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away, so stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.”

Walz chimed in in a statement on X/Twitter: “Kamala Harris and I are both gun owners. We’re not going to take away your Second Amendment rights – we’re going to prevent your kids from getting shot at school.”

Commentators also remarked on social media how possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is a federal crime, meaning Harris is legally allowed to own a gun but Trump, by law, is not. “Not only are Kamala Harris and Tim Walz law-abiding gun owners, as she says, but Donald Trump has had his guns removed from his possession because he is a convicted felon,” Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin said in a post on X.

After Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records at his hush money trial earlier this year, ABC News reported that the NYPD would be revoking his gun license.

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