Kamala Harris Vows ‘Executive Action’ on Guns as POTUS

Democrat California Sen. Kamala Harris has promised unilateral executive action on guns if she is elected president. (Screen capture, YouTube, GMA)

USA –  Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) made her disdain for the rights of gun owners official when she told a CNN Town Hall audience that, if she is elected president next year, she will issue executive orders on gun control during her first 100 days in office.

As reported by Bloomberg News, Harris would “bypass Congress with actions that include expanding requirements for background checks and revoking licenses for gun manufacturers and dealers found to have broken the law.”

She also said she would “prohibit fugitives from purchasing a firearm,” as noted by Fox News. But it’s already against the law for fugitives to buy guns, although that prohibition, along with other gun control restrictions, haven’t prevented criminals from getting their hands on firearms illicitly.

The threats, according to Bloomberg, “represent her attempt to lean into a cause that has gained strong support in the Democratic Party following a wave of mass shootings over the past several years.” The news agency acknowledged that these actions by a “President Harris” would “almost certainly face legal challenges.”

In her remarks, Harris said “leaders” in the nation’s capital “have failed to have the courage to reject a false choice which suggests you’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away.”

Harris has been no friend to the Second Amendment during her political career. Yet, according to the San Jose Mercury News, Harris recently acknowledged that she owns a firearm, identified by an aide as a handgun.

“I am a gun owner,” she told reporters, “and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do — for personal safety. I was a career prosecutor.”

CNN said a Harris campaign aide reported that the handgun is kept locked up “as a responsible gun owner.” She apparently bought the handgun “years ago.”

The senator’s warpath approach to gun control took on a macabre complexion when, during a CNN town hall event in January, Harris suggested that members of Congress “should have been required to go into a locked room to see ‘the autopsy photographs’ of the Sandy Hook elementary school children.”

The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, took his own life as police cars sped up to the school. He had a history of mental and emotional problems, but he had not been institutionalized. Instead, he lived with his mother, who purchased the guns legally under Connecticut statute. On the day of the attack, Lanza murdered her to take the firearms, a fact that is often overlooked when discussing that horrific event.

By threatening unilateral action on guns if she is elected president, Harris only reinforced the notion among firearms owners and Second Amendment activists that Democrats are drifting farther to the left.

Her talking points at the Town Hall event, as reported by Fox News, follow the gun control mantra, which may appeal to voters in liberal environments like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, but they don’t play too well the farther one moves away from the I-5 corridor.

“We need reasonable gun safety laws in this country,” Harris insisted, “starting with universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapon ban, but they (Congress) have failed to have the courage to act.”

Yet, in her own state of California, so-called “universal background checks” required by state statute have failed to keep guns away from criminals. And a federal judge in San Diego recently ruled that the state’s ban on original capacity magazines is unconstitutional, a ruling that is being appealed.

The 2020 presidential election is 18 months away, which is an eternity in politics. Whether Harris makes it all the way to the finish remains to be seen. She is in a growing field of Democrat candidates, all who appear to be trying to outflank one another to the political left.

Making statements about stricter gun control under a Harris regime may not be the intelligent move this early in the process, considering that the primaries are months away, and lots of Democrats are gun owners who may not warm up to her rhetoric.


About Dave WorkmanDave Workman

Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.

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J Gibbons

Middle of the road Democrat voters should be leaving that party in droves. Any Democrat who owns a gun for self-defense should realize that party is no longer on his/her side. Any Democrat who disagrees with murdering live-born babies (regardless of the location or intent of the mother) should be leaving that party. The Democrat party is the party against free speech, against any individual freedom of expression, against the preservation of human life. The Democrat part is the party for mob rule, street violence against anyone not towing the party line, for ruling elites to whom the rules don’t… Read more »

DAN III

Sir, the Republicans are not much different.

Albert Moore

Kamala Harris will never become President making threats like the one about restricting the Second Amendment via Executive Order. I can’t imagine that people will vote her in even assuming she becomes the Democrats nominee. This woman is dangerous on so many fronts, and she is really a trashy human being as well.

yepdatsme

She will most likely find that people will surrender their firearms after they have surrendered all of their ammunition.

Get Out

Hopefully someone will explain to KH that executive action (Orders) on guns must also be constitutional.
No president can unilaterally alter, rewrite, or amend the Constitution. What presidents, as the head of the executive branch, are able to do is direct how laws pertaining to constitutional rights are to be enforced, via executive orders.

The Revelator

@Get Out

Excellent comment, although I would add that since the constitution is clearly written then unless it is amended to remove in essence the entire bill of rights there will never be a time where such action can be construed to be Constitutional.

Get Out

IMOA I believe KH is being deceitful in her comments stating she’ll be able to pass an executive action (Orders) on guns if elected POTUS. She’ll say anything to get the support from anti-gun groups.

The Revelator

@Get Out No, I think the left might come to the point of trying it. What has held them back in the past has been fear of resistance. 2014, barely a year and a half after Sandy Hook when the Democrats were in an uproar over Gun Control. Republicans had had the house since 2010, and since a Dem was in the whitehouse and held the senate they weren’t going to budge. Obama started looking at executive orders. Then, Nevada happened. A rancher named Cliven Bundy managed to draw out a militia formed by citizens from Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and… Read more »

The Revelator

UPDATE:

I hate being Ironically right as often as it happens.

heard yesterday after my last post a day before, a story breaks the news from the FBI, ANTIFA trying to purchase arms from Cartels to stage a violent revolution on the American southern border.

Stay safe people!

Guy Wasson

After Obama WHO WANTS ANOTHERONE??

Chiefton

So right off the bat, she is saying that she refuses to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Is that in itself not treasonous?

Son_of_Liberty

How do these idiots not realize that this would most likely cause an armed march on Washington? It really doesn’t matter who’s president, if they use executive action to strip rights away from people, the outrage will boil over. Same thing if Congress tries to pass legislation in regards to a gun ban.

Well, at least I’d hope that’s what would happen. In a society where the elitest agenda has been burned into the back of our minds, a lot of people will stay on the fence. The “revolutionary” mindset has been diluted over this last century.

The Revelator

@Son_of_Liberty There are some here who bemoan the Constitution and claim that it is dead. Others, like myself, still live by and dedicate ourselves to understanding it based on how it was actually written. Those of us in the latter group have already at many points stated that we will follow the Constitution, not congress, not the president, and not the courts if there is an attempt to over rule or work around what is in the constitution in an attempt to install such action via force of government. We will not comply, we will fight. Please remember, if only… Read more »

Stripeseven

The Commie Collective..Ain’t they purdy?

Justice is coming

Clamidia Harris: if she is the future of our country God help us all. This is a woman who prostituted her way to where she is now. She has lead a career on her back by shacking up with political figures like Willie Brown. She is a loud mouth and anti American who is an obvious hypocrite. When Clamidia was a district attorney she had the worst conviction rate a person in her position could have. She released more criminals from jail than she ever prosecuted.. C. Harris is an abomination walking. She took an oath to honor our constitution… Read more »

circle8

I started to type my comment but you said it all. Thank you. She is nothing but a concubine for that scumbag willie brown. She is as big of a POS as that crook kevin newsom, gov moonbeam and his father.

DAN III

ALCON,

At what point in time will some federal congressman or senator call out Harris for NOT being eligible for POTUS per Article 2, Section 1, Clause V of the US Constitution ? She IS NOT a natural born citizen. Rather, she is just a citizen because of misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. She is simply an anchor baby born on U.S. soil. Her parents were foreign nationals. Neither of which were American citizens at her birth.

The Constitution is dead. As is the former USA.

Raymond Levy

You know that she claims to own a gun , well I got news for you , what she forgot to tell the citizens of the United States Of America is that she and all of the other politicians in California voted to exempt themselves from the vary own gun laws that they themselves write and pass , Laws that regular people of California must follow or become a criminal felon , I know because I live in California, she has a gun hell she can get any gun she wants and most likely has, like A.R,s and she does… Read more »

Bob

That’s so cute. She thinks she’s going to win.

Ronald Nuxon

Enough of this tough talk. The bigger picture is that the Democratic Party is hell-bent on defeating Donald Trump and gaining total political power in Washington and possibly the states. They will say and do anything to attain that goal. High among that, the appearance of moderation. They will configure a presidential team who, in their estimation, will attract a broader spectrum of Americans and eschew the Bernies (at least, on the surface).

tomcat

Good old heals up Harris the laughing stock of the democratic party, or I should say one of the laughing stocks. Power hungry and trying to attract all the good people by her endorsement of prostitution and dope smoking. If you think this country is going to hell in a handbasket you haven’t seen nothing yet. There is no other place where you take a job, completely ignore it and go prancing around the country begging for money so you can keep ignoring the job you swore an oath to. Maybe a few more democrats will catch on to this.After… Read more »

Wild Bill

@Tcat, Yeah, she adapts black mannerisms to fool the black voter, but she is Paki. Even her father is mad at her for what she is saying and the way she is acting.

DAN III

Tomcat,

Don’t you think that perhaps the American electorate should wise up ? At a minimum the problem here in Amerika are our fellow Amerikans. These are the idiots who subjugate traditional Americans to the tyranny of government tyrants.

Tomcat….Patriots are in deep dung ! Sad.

G-Dubb

Cameltoe is an Anti-American Communist, plain and simple. It is time we begin referring to them all this way – it may help the idiots in our country begin to understand the severity of the situation. I honestly hope these POS D politicians continue on this trajectory, as it has been pushing and will continue to push away the more intelligent of their voting bloc. There are actually a lot of gun owning libtards out there – these are the somewhat intelligent ones we need to jump ship and help us turn the tables. The way I see it, we… Read more »

HEART OF TEXAS,

a Harris campaign aide reported that the handgun is kept locked up “as a responsible gun owner.”
Virtue signaling since a handgun that is locked up provides zero personal protection.

luckieboy

well there you have it. she is entitled to own a firearm because she’s a “career” liar. words out of her own mouth. she needs protection but a single female in any big city or rural setting doesn’t. after all she’s law abiding and all the other good stuff that goes with being a government official.

Core

Kamala Harris has zero probability to be elected POTUS. She is also required to swear an oath to Support and Defend the US Constitution which she already repeatedly violates openly. According to Article VI she should be Defunded, Disbarred, and Discharged from Office. How could she become President if she is currently in violation of her oath? ALL of these unconstitutionalists should be booted from office if they refuse to abide by their oath per Article VI.

Tionico

There is one other SIGNIFICANT factor that SHOULD, even MUST< prevent her being elected. She is the child of a Jamaican and of an Indian (dot, not feather). Neither were US Citizens at the time of her birth. Thus she is NOT a "natural born citizen", an inescapable prequlifier to even run for that office. If she does run and does get elected, she should be arrested and charged with felony perjury well before the electioin…. for failing to uphold the Constitution by running for high office when unqualified. WHEN will some serious noise begin to be made over this… Read more »

RICHARDH

She has a high probability of getting away with this, OBAMA did!

John

Yeah no shit. Word now is Trump’s economy is doing so good Obama is thinking about becoming a US Citizen, who knew!

Wild Bill

@John Dunlap, THAT is funny!

DAN III

Tionico@1152,

Bless you for knowing the Constitution. However, soetoro-obama was not eligible to be POTUS as his father was a foreign citizen. Soetoro-obama IS NOT natural born. He is a usurper to the United States Constitution. Yet his eligibility was never challenged by Republican congressweasels or any members of the Deep State.

Not one fedgov scoundrel or mainstream media scum will challenge the Harris or the usurper soetoro-obama.

The USA is dead.

TheHolyCrow

She is on the list of those scheduled for a 3 am Military Tribunal, charging her with all sorts of violations, and to be held on her front lawn. With a guilty verdict, justice will be swift.

Clark Kent

‘Kamala Harris has zero probability to be elected POTUS’. Famous last words. Wake up.

Chuckbone56

Clark, We finally agree on something! Lol

DAN III

Never say never. Correct ?

Pcola

ANOTHER progressive lib with a pen and a phone attitude

JPM

Any time I see an individual’s name followed by, “D-anywhere” I immediately disregard anything they say or do as B.S. designed to fatten their purse at the expense of citizens and the nation as a whole.

Dick Olson

Apparently she has lied on her Oath of Office, which she has sworn to uphold, and that is to Protect, Preserve, and Defend the US Constitution, not just parts of it she agrees with!

TheHolyCrow

Oh, you mean she is a Felonius Perjuror ? That would be one who swears to abide by an oath by lawful swearing, but knows in their hearts that they will do the exact opposite. No doubt she is possessed by the same demon that dwells in Feinstein’s bosom.

Dan Rayha

No sense waiting any longer. Time to cut this democrat cancer out of America before it kills the greatest nation in history.
We are going to have to fight sooner or later anyhow, let’s get this party started!

Mike

Meh…. she’s a useless gas bag. I dont know why anyone gives her validity.

hippybiker

The simple fact is. Neither of her parents were American citizens when she was whelped. So, the creepy creature is not even eligible to be President.

MikeRoss

Unfortunately she was born in the US, so her parent’s citizenship doesn’t matter.

Bill in ILL

I didn’t this horror was an anchor baby!

Tionico

there are THREE requirements to be a Natural BOrn CItizen.

FIRST, born in the US or in US territlory, base, etc PASS

Born of a Mother who was a US Citizen at the time of the birth FAIL

Born of a Father who was a US Citizen at the time of the birth FAIL

She is NOT a Natural Born Citizen, never will be.

Done deal.

RotaryConnected

@Tionico…I hate to say it, because I hate everything she is about as much as you, BUT, you might be wrong about her parents having to be US citizens. I just googled “Constitutional Requirements to be a Natural Born Citizen”. In the source I read, it said that the parents CAN BE ALIENS, based on English Common Law, which is part of which the US Constitution is based on. I can only hope that the source I read is wrong. Better google it up and check for yourself. If you find a link that bolsters what you say, please post… Read more »

The Revelator

@RotaryConnected You are correct sir. The requirement was that they be legal residents[see permanent legal residency] if Alien, not the status of their Citizenship, for a child to qualify for it. (I personally disagree with that and think it should be withheld until the parents attain citizenship in all cases, at which point it should be recognized) The issue of Citizenship which comes up in for the transmittance of Natural Born Status such as Barrack Obama or Ted Cruz is where the Parents citizenship is looked at and whether or not marriage plays a role in it. The problem with… Read more »

Wild Bill

@Gentlemen, But in what forum is the issue of NBC decided? Answer: In the Electoral College. Each Elector is the guardian of “Who is eligible?” If an elector is convinced that a popular vote winner for his electoral votes is not eligible, they that elector has a duty and obligation to deny that ineligible candidate the electoral votes. The parties control who will be an elector, ergo the parties have corrupted that “check and balance”, as well.
So … how do “We the People” get control of the EC back from the parties?

The Revelator

@Wild Bill

That’s a good point, but as stated Congress has the ability to pass an act to grant the ability for a non Natural Citizen to be granted that status.

So it is not just the Electoral college being removed from party control, but reinstituting the office of Senator as a representative for the state not the populace, and reinstitute the system of voting for electors within the states.

Again, the Constitution is the answer. The question is how to get back to it from here.

Wild Bill

@Rev, Good to hear (read) from you again. Yes, back to the Constitution is the answer. Perhaps some new and stronger controls over our government employees, too.

DAN III

Ross,

You are WRONG ! She is NOT natural born. She is ineligible for POTUS.

John

A “progressive prosecutor” fighting for the little guy? Hardly! She fought to “uphold tainted convictions” relative to the crime-lab scandal in San Francisco in 2010. Let that sink in … at the time she was running the DA’s office, under her watch, 600 cases had to be dismissed.

Yeah, Green Mtn Boy …..Willie Brown’s depository appears to be her best work.

Sean Carberry

It’s how evil she is that will get her killed. Her hatred for the citizens of the united states is astounding and people will still listen to her? Wtf?! She doesn’t need to die to be stopped but I’m pretty sure not many will cry if she stopped breathing.

John

I am tired of this bs, let them ban all guns. Executive order, pass a law whatever. Then the REAL Americans will let freedom ring ( the sound of rounds cycling ). The day is coming, may as well be now.

Dan Rayhs

We are going to have to fight in the end, why wait any longer? If we don’t exterminate democrats now, we are just going to make the job harder.

John D.

Yes, it is coming. It is clear to me that all who aspire to political office are rotten to the core. They are the scum of a society that earns to be free, and how they always manage to lie their way to position of title is beyond me. John D.

Lord-Pi-314

@JD…The scum always rises to the top. It’s a fact of nature.

Ross

Writings on the wall,1st and 2nd amendment being attacked by russian implants,;Get your cb and ham radio’s while you can,stock-up.Better to be prepared!

Clark Kent

Russia has nothing to do with it. ‘We have met the enemy and he is us’ – Pogo.

James Slemons

ANOTHER IGNORANT DUMBOCRAT !!!

Hoplite

With this current overload of Demo-Communist presidential wannabes we are seeing and hearing the results of the liberal progressive school curriculum. If there was ever any doubt that the schools are Indoctrination Centers these ignorant POS are proof positive.

Green Mtn. Boy

She talks tuff for being nothing more than Willie Browns,willie depository.

Free Helicopter Rides For Commies

Libtard Demonrats must really want to feel the full wrath and fury of true Americans. IF she somehow steals the election and fraudulently assumes the office, and issues the order, I have doubts that the cops would obey and take the guns. They know they would be wearing the world’s biggest neon bullseye. Who knows? Maybe some federal cops with balls would even arrest her for treason?? If not, then the full wrath and fury of the American people would insure that hundreds of Demonrats would swing freely from DC streetlamps, and thousands more from every state legislature would join… Read more »

Mike

Kamala Harris got to the Senate by laying on her back with her legs spread wide open – nobody respects that whore.

Art johnson

Aren’t you supposed to read, andbe familiar with the U.S. Constitution, before you swear to support, defend, and protect the Constitution in order to be allowed to hold the position? So what Kamala is saying, right off the bat is. She wants everyne to know that she is not running, and is predisqualifying herself from running.

Mart3

Well, she could cross her fingers behind her back……

Witold Pilecki

Hmmm…I thought it was on her knees. Oh well, same difference.

freeillinois

http://www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com 4-6 cst mon-fri

gurly men, cucks and democrats need not listen

Paul Kersey Death Wish 3

Death to the New World Order, We shall prevail.

m.

cow-mala 2 the rescue, or is it camel-a?

m.

camel-aahh!

Clark Kent

And even more Dumbocrats are non firearm owners who DO warm up to her rhetoric, otherwise she would not be spouting such bilge.

Gas Block in WA

She’s currently polling at 4 percent. She will never win the nomination.

Clark Kent

That is what they claimed about Trump.

Richard L

Clark Kent Do you think that the Lame Stream media’s polling figures might have been a tad bit off?

Clark Kent

Polling does not matter. Voting and elections matter. Don’t count Harris out or any other Dumbocrat.

TheHolyCrow

It’s not who votes that counts, but who and what counts the votes. All electronic voting must be eliminated. It used to take a hacker less than 5 minutes to open a machine and insert new code that could swing the count any way they wanted. Now, the new machines, produced by Soros companies, can be hacked remotely by wifi after they are inspected and certified, and returned to normal as soon as the vote is finished. WE MUST RETURN TO PAPER BALLOTS that can be recounted and stored away. The stakes are too high, and we are already living… Read more »

DWEEZIL THE WEASEL

Word. Never say never. As H.L. Mencken once observed: “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” I am old enough to remember the fawning, simpering adulation of millions of stupid “voters” over the Kennedy Organized Crime Family. Senator Harris would make the ideal running mate for a charismatic Marxist useful idiot like Beto. Like it or not, next year will be the kickoff for another era of America’s “Roaring Twenties”.

Oldmarine

Oldmarine
This will make her a solid traitor bar none. All citizens could file criminal charges that would send her to prison for many years. Any act against the Constitution is a Traitorous act and truthfully she could be executed for her action. In fact any citizen would then have the right to kill her as an enemy of the country.

Raymond Levy

Old Marine , as to your comment , I to took the oath to protect America and the constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic , and that oath is a lifetime oath it does not end because I am no longer in uniform ……and you are correct about any citizen having the right to terminate her ass……………

DAN III

Mr. Raymond,

Agree with your comments. But, the seditious court system would not.

This country is in deep dung.

John

Damn – as much as I do not like her antics, someone needs to challenge your comments. Due Process equally applies to scumbags. Just because some dems care less about it, and will trample upon it endlessly, we should not, and will not, stoop so low. Yes, she is lower than whale shit and that is at the bottom of the ocean, I care not to join her! Your rhetoric is as bad as hers!

Chuckbone56

John, Explain how your moderate stance is working? ………. crickets. Yeah

The Revelator

That’s not a moderate stance Chuckbone56, it’s a principled stance. There’s a big difference. It’s like this…… A moderate stance individual will claim to believe in the second amendment, but accept or argue for restrictions(by definition precluding them from being a Second Amendment Supporter) A Principled stance individual looks at what the second amendment says and follows the wording of the law, but recognizes the right the Second Amendment restricts Gov’t from touching also applies to those they disagree with or don’t like. You cant play both sides. To do so is hypocritical and false. You either follow the entire… Read more »

DAN III

ALCON,

At what point in time will some federal congressman or senator call out Harris for NOT being eligible for POTUS per Article 2, Section 1, Clause V of the US Constitution ? She IS NOT a natural born citizen. Rather, she is just a citizen because of misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. She is simply an anchor baby born on U.S. soil. Her parents were foreign nationals. Neither of which were American citizens at her birth.

The Constitution is dead. As is the former USA.

The Revelator

@Dan III You should have taken a moment to read a comment made to @RotaryConnected that has been visible for well over an hour before you made your current comment. Had you done so, you might have avoided looking like a fool. For your benefit, I will repost it here. [Begin} @RotaryConnected You are correct sir. The requirement was that they be legal residents[see permanent legal residency] if Alien, not the status of their Citizenship, for a child to qualify for it. (I personally disagree with that and think it should be withheld until the parents attain citizenship in all… Read more »