Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that both she and running mate Tim Walz own guns.
“We’re not taking anybody’s guns away so stop with the continuous lying about this stuff,” Harris said on the debate stage in Philladelphia in response to former President Donald Trump’s claim that she “wants to confiscate your guns” if elected president.
In 2019, when she was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Harris spoke of owning a firearm.
“I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do – for personal safety,” she told reporters in Iowa. “I was a career prosecutor.” (Back in California, Harris served as an Alameda County criminal prosecutor, San Francisco district attorney and state attorney general.)
A Harris campaign aide said at the time that the weapon she owns is a handgun, which she keeps locked up as a responsible gun owner. According to the aide, the handgun was purchased years earlier.
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