Democrat nominee Kamala Harris once said as former San Francisco DA that police could pay surprise visits to gun owners and “walk into” their homes to confirm safe storage of firearms under a new law she helped draft.
“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 told a group of reporters in May 2007.
Kamala: “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.”
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 18, 2024
She’s an anti-gun RADICAL. pic.twitter.com/CTcyGgrJEf
“When we create laws, it’s not only about creating an opportunity, if you will, to prosecute someone for committing a crime, but more importantly, when we legislate our values, it’s about trying to encourage certain types of behavior,” she said at the time.
The 2007 San Francisco ordinance requires gun owners to lock away their firearms when stored at home.
After becoming the Democrat nominee, Kamala backpedaled on a number of far-left positions, including defunding the police and pushing the socialist Green New Deal agenda, but insisted her “values have not changed” when criticized for her flip-flops.
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) assured the far-left base that Harris is simply doing what she needs to do to “win the election,” which means moving more toward the middle to appeal to independent voters.
“I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals. I think she’s trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election,” he told MSNBC last week.
Harris’s past positions on gun control came into the spotlight during last week’s presidential debate when she was asked about her shifting position on mandatory gun buybacks by ABC News moderator Linsey Davis.
But she did not directly respond to the question until former President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed she had “a plan to confiscate everybody’s gun.”
“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,” Harris said in response to Trump’s assertion.
Days later, she and her campaign called for the banning of all “assault weapons”, ie semi-automatic rifles that look scary.
Congress must renew the assault weapons ban. pic.twitter.com/S2GoeAbVpu
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 14, 2024
Kamala Harris: “We’re not taking anyone’s guns away!” 30 seconds later, “We need an assault weapons ban.”
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 14, 2024
Sooo, which is it? pic.twitter.com/6QfDlLCPbL
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 rejected efforts by gun owners and the National Rifle Association to halt San Francisco’s 2007 law requiring residents to keep handguns locked when stored at home.
