History Shows Harris Does NOT Believe in the Right to Bear Arms

Now that Kamala Harris is the presumed Democrat nominee for President without receiving a single vote in the Democratic primary, we must review her record on the Second Amendment to see if she believes in an individual’s right to bear arms.

The woman who is running to ‘save democracy” after being installed as the Democrat candidate for President after a coup against her boss, President Joe Biden, has a verifiable history of being openly hostile to the Second Amendment. Vice President Harris went as far as claiming that the Second Amendment only applies to the Military and does not extend to the people. Although it is almost certain that many mainstream media sites will claim this to be false, it is easy to verify through an amicus brief that Harris filed in the Heller Supreme Court Case.

We know this will happen because, during the last election cycle, the Agence France-Presse (AFP), a French government-funded news agency and “trusted” Facebook partner, marked the claim as false on Facebook. Due to an investigation launched by AmmoLand News into French election interference, Facebook was forced to remove the false fact check. Although the social media giant was forced to backtrack, it did ban this reporter’s personal account for life without the possibility of appeal.

These actions led to an investigation by the Federal Election Committee (FEC) for marking factual statements as false to protect their chosen candidate from criticism, but shortly after Biden was in office, the FEC dropped the investigation into the social media company Facebook and the foreign-funded media organization, AFP. We are already seeing similar things play out in the media, such as claims that Kamala Harris raised bail money for Palestinian protesters being marked as false even though she did just that through her official X (formerly Twitter) account.

We know what the response will be, so the best way to counter those claims is to show irrefutable proof of Harris’s views on the Second Amendment by using legal documents filed with the Supreme Court to prove Harris does not believe in an individual right to bear arms. Keep in mind that during the last election, the AFP would mark the amicus brief posted to Facebook without any context directly from the Supreme Court’s website as “false.”

On January 11, 2008, Harris signed an amicus brief defending the District of Columbia in the Heller case. The case confirmed that the right to bear arms was an individual right. Harris and her cohorts unsuccessfully tried to argue that the Second Amendment only applies to the military. If Harris were successful, the entire landscape of gun rights would be drastically different. States would be able to ban any and all firearms for civilian use, effectively destroying Second Amendment protections.

“For nearly seventy years, courts have consistently sustained criminal firearms laws against Second Amendment challenges by holding that, inter alia, (i) the Second Amendment provides only a militia-related right to bear arms, (ii) the Second Amendment does not apply to legislation passed by state or local governments, and (iii) the restrictions bear a reasonable relationship to protecting public safety and thus do not violate a personal constitutional right,” the brief reads. “The lower court’s decision, however, creates a broad private right to possess any firearm that is a “lineal descendant” of a founding era weapon and that is in ‘common use’ with a ‘military application’ today.”

You read that right. In the eyes of Harris, you do not have the right to bear arms. She believes only the military has that right, putting her at odds with over 200 years of American history. She not only obfuscated what the Second Amendment says but ignored the writings of our Founding Fathers, such as the author of the Second Amendment, James Madison.

“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms,” James Madison wrote in the Federalist in 1788.

The brief also defends the banning of handguns in the name of “public safety.” As we know, thanks to Bruen, “public safety” cannot be used as an excuse to strip a person of their natural rights. This brief isn’t something that Harris just signed her name to. She helped pen the brief. These are her extremist anti-gun ideas that show she would be the most anti-gun President in the history of the United States if she gets elected to the White House.

“States and local governments have continued to modify criminal gun laws, tailoring them to meet the specific needs of each jurisdiction,” the brief reads. “For example, many states have enacted enhanced criminal charges and penalties for felony crimes if the perpetrator possesses a firearm during the commission of those crimes. In addition, a number of states and local governments have determined that, to protect public safety, certain exceptionally dangerous firearms, including assault weapons, assault pistols, and/or handguns, should be banned altogether. Some states have enacted an outright ban on carrying concealed weapons.”

Right now, we have a firewall against draconian gun laws with SCOTUS, but Harris has pushed the idea of expanding the Supreme Court by adding liberal extremist Justices to the bench to remove that defense. A Harris presidency might be the end of the Second Amendment as we know it. A phrase often repeated during elections is “This is the most important election of our lifetime,” but that might be a reality this time as far as our rights are concerned. Many gun owners are not Trump fans, and many are not one to vote for the “lesser of two evils,” but this time, firearms owners might have to hold their noses and vote against Harris if they genuinely care about gun rights.

About John Crump

John is a NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. Mr. Crump has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and on the Constitution. John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and sons and can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss, or at www.crumpy.com.