Vice President Kamala Harris has urged Congress to "renew the assault weapons ban" as a sign of her long-standing support for gun control measures.
This recent call builds upon her previous anti-gun statements, including back in 2019 during her short-lived campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for president, when Harris repeatedly advocated for a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons.
"We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program," Harris said in an October 2019 gun control forum in Las Vegas. "It’s got to be smart, we got to do it the right way. But there are five million [assault weapons] at least, some estimate as many as 10 million, and we’re going to have to have smart public policy that’s about taking those off the streets, but doing it the right way." (Related: Harris-Walz tandem's first order of business: Ban AR-15s.)
Harris reiterated her stance that assault weapons have no place on the streets and that a buyback program should fairly compensate gun owners in several interviews that year.
At that time, Harris also supported renewing the 1994 federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, which had prohibited the manufacture, transfer and possession of specific firearms and high-capacity magazines. She argued that this does not conflict with the Second Amendment, criticizing the false dichotomy of supporting either the amendment or gun control.
And now, several years later, Harris has once again proposed a ban on assault weapons, first with a short statement on X, formerly Twitter.
"Ban Assault Weapons," she said, uploading an image with this three-word statement on her account. In her tweet, she captioned the image urging Congress to "renew the assault weapons ban."
Harris and Walz seek to continue the Democratic push for gun control if elected
Before posting on X, Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have already vowed to combat gun crime in the United States by proposing new laws.
In a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia earlier in August, Harris promised to implement more stringent laws like an assault weapons ban to reduce gun crime in the country.
"So, Tim is a hunter and a gun owner who believes, as the majority of gun owners do, that we need reasonable gun safety laws in America. So as governor, he expanded background checks and increased penalties for illegal firearms sales. And together, when we win in November, we are finally going to pass universal background checks, red flag laws and an assault weapons ban," Harris said during her speech on Aug. 6, while Walz stood behind her.
In that same rally, Walz said: "When the vice president and I talk about freedom, we mean the freedom to make your own health care decisions and for our children to be free to go to school without worrying they'll be shot dead in their classrooms. By the way, as you heard, I was one of the best shots in Congress, but in Minnesota, we believe in the Second Amendment, but we also believe in common-sense gun violence laws."
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