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The forces pushing in on President Joe Biden and hastening him to quit the 2024 presidential campaign won. Now all eyes and attention are turned toward Vice President Kamala Harris to pick up the torch. She’s the presumptive Democratic nominee until things are finalized at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month, but all signs point to her coronation as the Democratic candidate to challenge Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump in November.

Sure, there are some significant differences between President Biden and Vice President Harris. Most notably age, gender and race, but on policies – specifically the Second Amendment – Vice President Harris owns the entire failed and horrendous record she helped push along during the three and a half years of the Biden administration. And she could be even worse.

From the president deeming the entire firearm industry – all 384,000 hardworking and proud Americans employed in it – as the “enemy”in 2019, to his gun control executive actions and the creation of The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention (headed up by Vice President Harris herself) to push gun control propaganda and all the way to repeating his call to ban the most popular-selling centerfire semiautomatic rifle in the country following a failed assassination attempt on former President Trump by a disturbed individual not two weeks ago, Vice President Harris has been in lockstep with President Biden with no daylight in between.

Gun Rights ‘Astroturf’ & ‘Façade’

It’s astonishing to think that Vice President Harris is on the cusp of being elevated to the Democratic nominee for President of the United States without ever receiving a single vote in a Democratic primary election for president. Remember, following a disastrous primary debate and national polling that placed her around 1 percent, she dropped her own 2019 candidacy to be president before the Iowa caucuses and first primary elections.

Shortly after, she worked hard to get back into President Biden’s good graces and jockey herself to be his pick for vice president by going through Everytown for Gun Safety’s Veepstakes, where she promoted her gun control bona fides and pledged to do as much as she could to restrict Second Amendment rights. Everytown jumped right back in and endorsed her for the new position as Democratic presidential nominee, as have both Giffords and Brady United.

One of the major points she made during her 2020 conversation with Everytown’s John Feinblatt and Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts was that the surge in Americans interested in their Second Amendment rights and lawfully purchasing historic numbers of firearms during the COVID pandemic and heights of the defund the police movement was fake. It was “astroturffed” as they called it.

Vice President Harris supported “reimagining” policing, and praised Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for stripping $150 million from the city’s law enforcement budget. She supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund in 2020 following the violent protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd. That fund bailed out violent criminals, some of whom committed other violent crimes.

“We’re seeing these AstroTurf protests springing up at state houses,” Watts claimed. “They’re fueled by fearmongering from the NRA and their allies. It’s really terrifying. These rallies are organized and funded by gun extremists.”

Then-U.S. Sen. Harris (D-Calif.) agreed, “It’s not grassroots. It’s a façade. It’s a front for some other agenda. It’s not real.”

If she were concerned then about millions of Americans turning to the Second Amendment to safeguard their families, homes and businesses on their own from criminal violence and looting, the vice president is really not going to like what’s happened since.

In the four-and-a-half years since 2020, more than 22.3 million Americans lawfully purchased a firearm for the first time and became brand new gun owners. That’s roughly the population of Florida and likely made up Independent and even Democratic-leaning voters who had enough of the antigun, anti-police policies the vice president supported all along the way.

Pledges MSR Bans

A major similarity between President Biden and Vice President Harris is that they both, at every opportunity that presents itself, call for the reinstatement of a new so-called “assault weapon” ban, referencing the Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR), or AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles. Just a few days ago, following the failed assassination attempt of former President Trump, President Biden repeated his call to ban America’s most popular semiautomatic rifle, of which there are more than 24 million in circulation.

“An AR-15 was used in the shooting of Donald Trump. This was the assault weapon that killed so many others, including children. It’s time to outlaw them,” President Biden told a rally audience in Las Vegas.

Just a couple of months ago, Vice President Harris made a public call to reinstate a ban on MSRs that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said had no effect on crime when one was last in place nearly 20 years ago.

“In memory of Columbine, Aurora, Uvalde and Club Q, we continue — and we all continue — to fight for an assault weapons ban, universal background checks and red-flag laws,” she stated in Denver.

President Biden, Vice President Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) couldn’t even get all Democrats to support the most recent attempt to pass a national ban on MSRs when Democrats held all power in Washington, D.C., from 2021-2022.

Kitchen Sink Gun Control Agenda

The Biden-Harris ticket in 2020 was deemed “the most antigun ticket” in presidential election history. From all the executive actions, to the whole-of-government attacks on the lawful firearm industry including their “zero tolerance” policy suffocating federal firearms licensees for minor infractions, to the creation of the gun control office within The White House and so much more, they have earned that accurate label. All of that and gun control activists still were angry with the Executive Branch, often criticizing President Biden and Vice President Harris for not going further.

For her part, then-candidate Harris pleaded for acceptance from Democratic primary voters and gun control activists by pledging to take unilateral “swift action” during her first 100 days in office if Congress didn’t act on gun control. It fell on deaf ears and voters largely ignored her candidacy but it does give a glimpse of how she might still govern ahead should she make it to The West Wing as president.

Guns.com’s Chris Eger described Vice President Harris as “instrumental” in The White House’s gun control agenda, while referencing her support as the junior senator from California for a new “assault weapons” ban, mandatory gun lock storage legislation, taxpayer-funded “gun violence research,” and near-universal background checks on all firearm transfers – an idea that is impossible to implement effectively without a national firearm ownership registry. Notably, Vice President Harris would also do away with the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) that protects the lawful and highly-regulated firearm industry from frivolous lawsuits brought by unrelated third parties for the violence, injuries and deaths caused by criminals.

During her 2019 campaign, then-Sen. Harris even suggested she’d ban MSRs by executive action. The Reload’s Stephen Gutowski also succinctly summed up what a President Harris administration could mean for the firearm industry. “In 2020, Harris ran to Biden’s left on guns. He even attacked her over one of her proposals during that campaign,” Gutowski posted on social media. “President Biden had already been running a pretty aggressive campaign on gun control. Probably the most aggressive in 30 years, with an AR ban as his premier policy proposal. Harris could push things even further left.”

The Democratic National Convention in Chicago is a little more than three weeks away. With support seemingly consolidating around Vice President Harris to be the Democratic nominee for president in November, gun control issues will continue to be a major focus and difference between herself and former President Donald Trump. That’s especially critical for the 22.3 million first-time gun buyers since the last election.

It’s imperative that all Americans who support the Second Amendment – including the 10 million hunters and recreational target shooters who aren’t registered to vote – to get out and #GUNVOTE on Nov. 5 so they don’t risk their rights.

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38 COMMENTS

  1. Never forget, she’s the one who, as CA Attorney General, certified that the technology existed, unencumbered by patents, to microstamp serial numbers on bullet cases in two separate places as they’re fired. This was a lie. She perjured herself, for the sole purpose of infringing the right to bear arms.

    • Most people who consider voting for giggles think Gun Control is the cat’s meow. That’s mainly because most Gun Owners failed to man up and Define Gun Control by its History. There is no excuse for America not to see Gun Control in the same light as a noose, etc.

      Way before Historical Analogies were noted in Bruen I challenged Gun Talking blowbags on this forum who assumed Gun Control History did not matter to simply ask 10 random people to Define Gun Control and all I got back ware Crickets…You know who you are.

      On the other hand what was witnessed by all for years was a frail senile old man forced to play POTUS by self serving lowlife scum of the earth democRats such as giggles, jill biden, b.h. obama, the view et al. Like History Confirms the democRat Party owns the Legacy of Slavery the democRat Party also owns Elderly Abuse. Hopefully the blatant Elderly Abuse factor will not be swept under the carpet like Defining Gun Control by its History.

      Only 7.9k views after a year and Gun Talking slackers wonder why Gun Control schemes keep coming…
      https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZFEz3Bt9hCw&feature=shared

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    • The result of which very few guns have been added to the California Roster of firearms approved to be sold since 2013 except for revolvers. Any modification of an existing rostered firearm resulted in it being removed–which meant all Colt automatics and any number of other guns. Only until the state dropped its appeal of a trial court order eliminating microstamping have a few new guns trickled in. All thanks to Kamala’s willingness to commit perjury. (Then again, her successors in the AG’s office have been equally anti-gun.)

  2. Slow news day, or news for the slow?

    She is a Democrat politician, so anti-gun was always going to be one of her major positions. Old knee pads Harris came out of the California political system, so she will have long ago assumed the position.

  3. Democrats are the party of lies and incompetence.

    Lies. And. Incompetence.

    They lied – Kamala Harris LIED – for years about Joe Biden’s health. When she got found out (because what a STUPID lie it was) she and her fellow liars took him behind the barn and dropped him like a lame horse. A coup.

    Now there are more lies – about Biden’s statesmanlike “decision,” about Kamala Harris’s public record. Endless lies as they desperately cling to power.

    Meanwhile, this whole time, a cabal of leftist hangers-on, complicit in the lie – especially Kamala Harris – have been driving the country into the ground. Afghanistan. Inflation. The border. Gas prices. Grocery bills. The Housing crisis. Fentanyl. Crime. Ukraine. Israel. China. The world is on fire and they cackle like Nero fiddled, lost and confused and failing at everything.

    Incompetence. Absolute, utter, unbelievable incompetence.

    The democrat party is a sleazy salesman, using bait-and-switch tactics and fraud to take YOUR money (you rube). He thinks you’re stupid. He thinks you’ll fall for it. Again. He might be right.

    The democrats are the party of lies and incompetence.

    Say it again. Memorize it. Tell everyone.

    Lies. And. Incompetence.

    Don’t be the rube. Don’t stand for it. Throw them out for what they’ve done.

    • “Lies. And. Incompetence. Maliciousness.”

      The incompetence mostly comes from things they don’t care about. They’re pretty good at the things they do care about. It’s all about priorities. “This Afghanistan withdrawal looks bad. Quick! Distract the public with a strike on some terrorists to make us look tough. Oops, we just killed an innocent family. Uhh… blame it all on Trump!”

      • Dude,

        How about lies, incompetence, AND maliciousness? Embrace the healing power of “and”. But one cannot deny the incompetence of the Dims/Leftist/fascists – there are too many counterfactuals. Obamacare, the “Great Society” (hell, we can go all the way back to the “New Deal” and further!). Leftist/fascists are both incompetent AND malicious, and lies are there stock in trade . . . just look at any speech by Kamal-toe, Senile Joe, Adam Schiff, Gerry “I pooped myself” Nadler, Nancy Pelosi, the America’s Dumbest Bartender . . . the list goes on, and on, and on. If they couldn’t lie, they’d have nothing to say.

    • Get em Napresto! You got me hyped up. You should tour with trump and be his “hype” man that comes out before the show to get everybody pumped

  5. Just so you know — that black SUV outside your local public range, with the multiple antennae on top, is there to scan your phone and take a picture of your license plate.

    Do what you will with this info. Just be aware.

    • “Harris’ horrendous record as a prosecutor“

      Well, let’s take a look at her record:

      “In the early 2000s, the San Francisco murder rate per capita outpaced the national average. Within the first six months of taking office, Harris cleared 27 of 74 backlogged homicide cases by settling 14 by plea bargain and taking 11 to trial; of those trials, nine ended with convictions and two with hung juries. She took 49 violent crime cases to trial and secured 36 convictions.[84] From 2004 to 2006, Harris achieved an 87-percent conviction rate for homicides and a 90-percent conviction rate for all felony gun violations.[85]“

      And what is her position on reduced bail for violent offenders?

      “Harris also pushed for higher bail for criminal defendants involved in gun-related crimes, arguing that historically low bail encouraged outsiders to commit crimes in San Francisco. SFPD officers credited Harris with tightening the loopholes defendants had used in the past.[86] In addition to creating a gun crime unit, Harris opposed releasing defendants on their own recognizance if they were arrested on gun crimes, sought minimum 90-day sentences for possession of concealed or loaded weapons, and charged all assault weapons possession cases as felonies, adding that she would seek prison terms for criminals who possessed or used assault weapons and would seek maximum penalties on gun-related crimes.[87]“

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris#:~:text=Violent crimes,-In the early&text=She took 49 violent crime,for all felony gun violations.

      Oh, now I see you folks problem with Kamala Harris.
      She is too effective at enforcing gun laws. I thought you folks wanted the gun laws on the books enforced…

      “a 90-percent conviction rate for all felony gun violations“

      “Harris also pushed for higher bail for criminal defendants involved in gun-related crimes“

      “Harris opposed releasing defendants on their own recognizance if they were arrested on gun crimes“

      I guess she’s just a little bit too much ‘law and order’ for you conservatives.

    • All they get on Trump is “yer a felon & I’m a prosecutor”. Kamaltoe has huge volume of incompetence & evil. And all those black folks you incarcerated(and languish ed) in prison & nearly executed won’t forget. Her record as presidon’t of vice is pathetic.

    • My prophecy is Donald Trump will cancel his debate on ABC.

      He will insist on a debate conducted by his friends at Fox ‘News’.

    • “My prophecy is Donald Trump will cancel his debate on ABC”

      So my prophecy has been fulfilled, I should start a religion.

      “Harris Taunts Trump After He Backs Out of Debates
      “What happened to ‘any time, any place’?”
      BY CHARISMA MADARANG
      JULY 25, 2024

      NEARLY FIVE MONTHS after Donald Trump vowed on social media that he would debate “ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE,” the former president has backed out of that promise“

      https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kamala-harris-trump-backs-out-debates-1235068484/

      What a surprise, the convicted felon does not want to debate an experienced prosecutor…

  10. Any advocate for civilian disarmament should they themselves not be permitted to have armed guards to protect them.

    For them to have an armed protection detail, and to simultaneously advocate for the removal of civilian gun ownership rights, the levels of intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy required cannot get any higher than that.

  11. Do NOT overestimate the electorate. Vast swaths of the voting population will vote for this person JUST because she is a woman and a minority, IN SPITE of her far left views on just about everything, not just guns.

    This is a TOTALLY different race. One strategy Harris’ people will employ is poking Trump to say something “misogynist” and “racist,” two words that are currently defined by the Pravda media.

    If she does get in, it will be a “get Whitey” administration, far more destructive than Biden.

    Prepare accordingly.

    • Johnny – no matter what DJT ends up saying the left will make the claim that it was both of those terms you used – and the lame stream media will keep pointing that out and the lofos and sheeple will believe it. Look how many STILL believe the ‘very fine people’ lie no matter how often it gets debunked.

    • If Trump could only resist commenting on every situation or comment it would serve him well. DJT if you don’t have to say something…don’t, there are thousands of people looking to bring you down figuratively and literally.

  12. Any advocate for civilian disarmament should they themselves not be permitted to have armed guards to protect them.

    For them to have an armed protection detail, and to simultaneously advocate for the removal of civilian gun ownership rights, the levels of intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy required cannot get any higher than that.

  13. Joseph Stalin, “The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do,”

    • Especially when the observers and scrutineers are TOLD to leave and then several car loads of “late arriving” ballots turn up.

      Or a mail in ballot rate that vastly exceeds the voting population? It’s given the Dems will cheat. By how much is yet to be determined.

      • “Or a mail in ballot rate that vastly exceeds the voting population”

        That certainly is an interesting statement, do you have an actual evidence to support your claim?

  16. It will even be worse. ‘If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have gun!’ will become a reality!

  17. Pres.Biden is Catholic. So I suppose he has read the Bible? But maybe he forgot that Able was killed with a donkey’s jawbone!? Doing away with guns would be like doing away the donkeys. No donkeys, no jawbone, no murder! Simple,but so stupid.

  18. RE: Harris’ “coronation” let us all remember the founding fathers admonishments about hereditary governments and ask ourselves why was Harris chosen? besides the “campaign warchest”? She was chosen because she has been the (worst) vice president for the last three and half years although she is STILL NOT QUALIFIED to hold such a responsibility. Holding a position, no matter how poorly it is filled, doesn’t qualify one for PROMOTION.

    • She ticks the DEI boxes and has Hollywood’s approval. That’s all that’s needed.

  19. Kamala “kackles” Harris is THE MOST rabid anti gun politician in history. She will do more harm to WE THE PEOPLE than Hitler and any other Anti Gun Tyrant combined. IT IS ONLY ABOUT THEM REMAINING IN POWER.

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