In a lame try and run away from her radical anti-gun and anti-Second Modification report, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has spent the final a number of weeks claiming that she is a gun proprietor. This, in fact, is irrelevant to her excessive report of attacking gun rights.
In reality, Harris isn’t even the primary anti-gun politician from San Francisco to personal a gun. The late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) spent a lot of her profession working to decrease Second Modification rights and, like Harris, advocating for gun confiscation. Nevertheless, when her household got here below assault from left-wing terrorists whereas she was a San Francisco supervisor within the mid-Nineteen Seventies, Feinstein sought the safety of a .38-caliber revolver.
Judging from Harris’s report, she shares this “weapons for me, however not for thee” angle.
Throughout a mid-September interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harris boasted that she would use her firearm to shoot a house invader. Then, throughout a current 60 Minutes interview, Harris was requested what sort of firearm she owns, to which she responded that she owns a Glock semiautomatic handgun. This element is vital, as a result of Harris has repeatedly labored to limit or ban extraordinary residents from possessing the very firearm she claims to personal for self-defense.
Harris Supported a Handgun Ban in San Francisco
In 2005, when Harris was San Francisco district lawyer, the now-vice president was listed as a sponsor of Proposition H, which was a poll measure that sought to ban the possession of ALL handguns within the metropolis. Whereas the measure was accepted by far-left San Francisco voters, it was struck down by the courts after NRA challenged it.
To be clear, this was not a ban on the long run sale or possession of handguns, it was a ban on ALL handguns, which suggests, had it stood, firearms would both should be faraway from town or turned over to authorities (i.e., confiscated).
Furthermore, in January 2006, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom despatched a letter to town Board of Supervisors requesting the utmost jailtime obtainable below state legislation for individuals who violated town handgun ban. Particularly, the letter learn,
In accordance with Proposition H and in session with the Chief of Police, District Lawyer, Sheriff and the Metropolis Lawyer, we’re calling for the utmost penalty below state legislation for metropolis residents who violate this voter accepted ordinance. (emphasis added)
Harris Supported a Handgun Ban in D.C.
In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom determined the case District of Columbia v. Heller. The case involved a problem to Washington, D.C.’s complete ban on handgun possession. In overruling the ban, the Courtroom made clear that the Second Modification protects a person proper to maintain and bear arms for lawful functions, together with self-defense.
If it was as much as Harris, People wouldn’t get pleasure from a person proper to maintain and bear arms – together with the fitting to own a handgun at house for self-defense.
In 2008, Harris was the San Francisco district lawyer. On this capability, Harris endorsed an amicus curiae transient of district attorneys in help of the District of Columbia and its handgun ban within the Heller case. In a January 2008 press launch touting the transient, the San Francisco District Lawyer’s Workplace defined that Harris was “main” this effort to help the unconstitutional handgun ban.
Harris Supported Legislation that Successfully Banned Semiauto Handguns
Beneath California legislation, for a handgun to be bought on to extraordinary residents, it have to be listed on the state’s “Roster of Licensed Handguns.” Handgun producers should apply to have their handguns listed on the roster, pay a price, submit a pattern for testing, and manufacture the firearm with sure specs.
Additional, the specs a handgun should meet to be included on the roster have been amended over time. Handguns already on the roster that don’t meet these specs are allowed to be bought, however new handguns that don’t meet the brand new necessities usually are not.
As California gun rights lawyer Konstadinos Moros defined in a wonderful article on X.com, the character of those shifting handgun specs created a ban on trendy semiautomatic handguns within the Golden State. Moros defined,
As of 2007, for a new-to-market semiautomatic centerfire handgun to keep away from the “unsafe” classification and be eligible on the market, the handgun wanted to have each a chamber load indicator (“CLI”) and {a magazine} disconnect mechanism (“MDM”), along with passing a drop security check and passing a firing reliability check. CAL. PENAL CODE §§ 31910(b)(5), 31900, & 31905.
This instantly constrained the California handgun market, as most trendy handguns would not have CLIs or MDMs.
Furthermore, California legislation demanded that each one new handguns positioned on the roster should include microstamping know-how as soon as it’s obtainable. For extra data on this unworkable know-how, please click on right here.
As Moros identified:
On Might 17, 2013, then-Lawyer Basic of California Kamala Harris determined to subject a certification that the microstamping know-how is offered to multiple producer unencumbered by any patent restrictions. From then on, a semiautomatic handgun might solely be bought in California if it had an MDM, CLI, and microstamping.
The apparent subject was that the know-how didn’t exist exterior of a laboratory setting, and it nonetheless doesn’t in the present day.
See the certification by clicking right here.
This certification acted as a ban on new fashions of semiautomatic handguns in California. Thanks, partially, to Harris, producers like Glock couldn’t promote new or upgraded variations of their handguns on to extraordinary residents in California.
Alleged Collusion with Gun Management Teams
In September 2023, President Joe Biden took a step to institutionalize the anti-gun advocacy complicated inside the government department of the federal authorities by creating the “White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention.” Biden put Harris accountable for this gun management effort. The White Home web site for the outfit states, “The Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention is overseen by Vice President Harris.”
On March 19, town of Chicago filed go well with in opposition to handgun producer Glock. In search of to shift accountability for town’s woeful governance, Chicago’s lawsuit blamed the favored firearm producer for the third-party felony misuse of its merchandise. Particularly, Chicago tried to carry Glock responsible for the truth that criminals use unlawful units (auto sears or so-called “Glock switches”) to illegally modify Glock pistols into unlawful machine weapons. The go well with sought to pressure Glock to change the design of its celebrated pistols and requested the court docket to enjoin the sale of Glock pistols to Chicago residents.
Longstanding U.S. tort ideas, and the federal Safety of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act clarify that firearm producers are to not be held responsible for the felony misuse of their merchandise. Merely put: individuals are accountable for their very own conduct, not the conduct of others. Subsequently, if a violent felony acquires and misuses a firearm to commit a criminal offense, it’s the felony who’s responsible for the conduct, not the corporate that produced the firearm. Similar to how Basic Motors isn’t accountable for the actions of drunk drivers.
In June, the Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability introduced that it was analyzing “potential collusion” between the Biden-Harris Administration, the Metropolis of Chicago and “anti-Second Modification plaintiffs” within the Glock lawsuit.
In line with a June 14 press launch, “the Oversight Committee has discovered that the White Home met privately with representatives from Glock, throughout which the Administration requested Glock change their pistol design,” adopted by Everytown for Gun Security President John Feinblatt tweeting in regards to the assembly. “As a result of this was a personal assembly between Glock and the White Home, Mr. Feinblatt appeared to have inside entry to the White Home assembly which raises questions on collusion with [the White House Office on Gun Violence Prevention]. And quite than aggressively prosecuting criminals, authorities companies are colluding with anti-gun curiosity teams to cripple a producer who sells a authorized product in a extremely regulated gross sales market.” This raised questions on authorities transparency, potential “conflicts of curiosity by White Home employees working on the behest of former or future employers, and different problems with belief in authorities.”
Describing the Glock lawsuit as a “misguided motion [that] ignores the accountability of Federal legislation enforcement companies to aggressively prosecute criminals who violate Federal statutes and native prosecutors who’ve taken a delicate on crime strategy to prosecutions,” Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote to ATF director Steven Dettelbach on June 14, requesting his help with the investigation by producing, amongst different issues, “[a]ll paperwork and communications between or among the many ATF, the White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention , Everytown for Gun Security, Everytown Legislation, any State Attorneys Basic, officers of the Metropolis of Chicago, Company Counsel of the Metropolis of Chicago, Metropolis of Chicago Division of Legislation, Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrision, LLP, which embrace the phrases ‘Glock’, ‘auto sear(s)’, ‘Glock switches’, ‘machinegun conversion gadget’ (‘MCD’) or ‘Chicago litigation’…”
A related letter was despatched on June 14 to Stefanie Feldman, director of the White Home Workplace on Gun Violence Prevention, asking for all paperwork and communications between her workplace, the ATF, Everytown for Gun Security, and Everytown Legislation associated to the Glock litigation or auto sears usually, in addition to all paperwork and communications between Rob Wilcox, the deputy director of the White Home Workplace for Gun Violence Prevention, and John Feinblatt (Wilcox beforehand “served because the Senior Director of Federal Authorities Affairs at Everytown for Gun Security,” and previous to that, “labored at Brady”).
On July 19, Chairman Comer fired off a follow-up letter to Ms. Feldman, indicating that the response acquired to the June 14 letter “was unaccompanied by any of the responsive paperwork I requested in my preliminary letter. Efforts by my employees to acquire compliance with the doc request from the White Home have gone unanswered.”
“The White Home ought to spend extra time complying with Committee requests, and fewer time obstructing congressional investigations into potential misconduct and misuse of workplace by White Home officers,” Chairman Comer wrote again, reiterating the request for the paperwork and warning that the Committee “will use all instruments at its disposal, together with use of the obligatory course of, to acquire the knowledge the Committee seeks.”
On October 3, Chairman Comer was pressured to make use of the obligatory course of. In a press launch, the Committee introduced, “Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is in the present day issuing subpoenas to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention, which is overseen by Vice President Harris.”
The cowl letter for the subpoena to the White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention acknowledged,
Plaintiff’s counsel has publicly shared particulars of a personal assembly that your workplace had with Glock, Inc., the defendant within the lawsuit, which raises critical considerations about whether or not you or your employees abused the authority of your workplace and dedicated moral violations by colluding with exterior events to provoke a lawsuit in opposition to a politically disfavored non-public entity.
As gun trade commerce group, the Nationwide Taking pictures Sports activities Basis noticed in July:
quite than maintain accountable the criminals who illegally possess and use auto sears, all indications are that The White Home teamed with the Metropolis of Chicago who retained Everytown for Gun Security to file the frivolous lawsuit in opposition to GLOCK, Inc. Now that they’re being known as out for the potential collusion, the one solutions White Home officers will present are mood tantrums over the truth that the Home Oversight Committee is doing precise oversight of Govt Department abuses of courts to deliver lawfare in opposition to a member of the firearm trade.
Harris can declare all she needs that she values proudly owning a handgun for her personal self-defense, however her decades-long political report reveals that her actions have been aimed toward attempting to cease extraordinary People from exercising their Second Modification proper to personal the identical handgun.
—Courtesy NRA-ILA
