Kamala Harris Wanted To Ban The Gun She Now Claims To Own

When it comes to gun ownership and the Second Amendment, Kamala Harris has successfully shot herself in the foot.

Harris not only threatened to storm the homes of legal gunowners — she supported a handgun ban



Kamala Harris' recent indication that her "values have not changed" prompted critics to wonder what besides taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens, the elimination of the Hyde Amendment, and the legalization of crack cocaine for personal consumption she still supports.

Just days after sleuths found footage of Harris threatening to storm the homes of law-abiding Americans for surprise gun inspections, CNN analyst Stephen Gutowski highlighted Harris' sponsorship of a handgun ban.

Gutowski dug up a Nov. 2005 San Jose Mercury News article indicating that San Francisco's then-Attorney General Kamala Harris sponsored Proposition H — an ordinance that banned the manufacture, distribution, sale, and transfer of handguns in San Francisco.

'Robbers, rapists and home invaders can be sure that their next victim will be helpless.'

Security guards, police officers, active members of the U.S. military, and criminals would have been the only people left holding guns had a court not killed the ban after it passed. After all, everyone was required to surrender their weapons by April 1, 2006, and would not be compensated for doing so.

The Coalition Against Prohibition stressed in the voter information pamphlet that the Harris-supported proposition denied Americans the choice to defend themselves and protect others.

"You may never need a gun to defend yourself, but someone else will: a woman alone in her apartment during a break-in, a gay man surrounded by attackers, a battered wife pursued by a stalker," wrote the coalition. "Proposition H encourages criminals. Robbers, rapists and home invaders can be sure that their next victim will be helpless."

"The sponsors of this flop have not done their homework. A long-standing California preemption statute prohibits cities from passing a patchwork of conflicting gun laws. If Prop H passes, we will have to pay for a costly lawsuit that San Francisco will lose," said the coalition.

Critics of the Harris-backed gun ban also noted that despite a similar initiative in Washington, D.C., murders continued to skyrocket.

Republican opponents of the Harris-backed gun ban quipped, "We have a bridge to sell to anyone who believes criminals will turn in their handguns."

The San Francisco Republican Party noted at the time, "One of the first laws enacted by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) was to ban the private ownership of guns."

A group of gays, lesbians, and transvestites called "Pink Pistols" similarly denounced the ban, suggesting it would leave them cowering in their homes, "helpless to stop attacks from hurting our friends and families."

Although the gun ban was supposed go into effect in January 2006, the National Rifle Association and others filed a legal challenge, holding up its enforcement long enough for San Francisco County Superior Court Judge James Warren — appointed to the bench by former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson — to kill the ban in June 2006, indicating it was "invalid as preempted by state law."

Harris did not, however, relent in her efforts to disarm Americans.

'I support a mandatory gun buyback program.'

In 2008, she was one of the leftist district attorneys who signed an amici curiae in the Second Amendment case D.C. v. Heller, claiming a total handgun ban was constitutional. Reason noted the brief to which Harris was party also suggested that the Second Amendment does not secure an individual right but rather a "collective" or "militia-related" right.

Harris told reporters in September 2019 — before her previous presidential campaign fizzled out — that she supported a coerced buyback of so-called assault weapons.

"We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program," Harris said in October 2019. "It's got to be smart, we got to do it the right way. But there are 5 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."

'We're not taking anyone's guns away.'

The Harris' campaign website indicates that if elected, she would "ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks, and support red flag laws that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people."

Despite her decades-long campaign to disarm law-abiding Americans, Harris has recently adopted the persona of a gun rights supporter, telling Oprah Winfrey at her rally last week, "If someone breaks in my house, they're getting shot."

It's presently unclear whether the gun Harris allegedly owns is a kind she has tried to ban in the past.

"Some people have been pushing a real false choice — to suggest you're either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone's guns away," said Harris. "I'm in favor of the Second Amendment, and I'm in favor of assault-weapons bans, universal background checks, red-flag laws."

During her debate with President Donald Trump earlier this month, Harris claimed, "We're not taking anyone's guns away."

Gutowski noted that the Harris campaign did not respond to his request for comment about her handgun ban.

The NRA Institute for Legislative Action noted in July, "Gun owners should understand that Harris poses the gravest threat to their Second Amendment rights. In fact, Harris's record suggests that she does not believe the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms at all. Moreover, Harris has repeatedly called for government confiscation of some of America’s most popular firearms."

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High-tech handgun with 'fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics' only shoots in the hands of authorized users



Biofire is selling a high-tech handgun that only unlocks and shoots in the hands of an authorized user whose identity is verified via fingerprint or facial recognition technology.

The 9mm "Biofire Smart Gun" is powered by a rechargeable battery that the company claims will allow for several hours of continuous shooting or can power the gun "for several months with average use," according to a press release.

"Biofire's Guardian Biometric Engine integrates state-of-the-art capacitive fingerprint identification and 3D infrared facial recognition systems that independently verify a user's identity - whichever recognizes the user first, unlocks the firearm. It works in a wide variety of conditions, including if a user is wearing gloves or a face covering. Customizable LED indicators show when the gun is armed," the company wrote.

Biofire says that the weapon locks once it is no longer being held by an approved user: "The firearm immediately locks when it leaves an authorized user's hand. Integrated IR sensors in the grip keep the firearm armed while an authorized user is holding the gun, removing a need to continuously authenticate their biometrics."

The company promotes the product on its website with phrases such as "Always Locked" and "Instantly Accessible."

The gun starts at $1,499, but it will be awhile before buyers get their hands on them because the company is not yet shipping the product.

"Biofire's approach is totally novel: we've applied high-precision engineering principles to make a meaningful impact on preventable firearm deaths among children. No one had tried that before. As a result, Biofire is now offering the most technologically advanced consumer firearm the industry's ever seen," Biofire CEO and founder Kai Kloepfer said, according to the press release. "The Biofire Smart Gun shoots like any high-quality firearm, but it also feels like you're holding the future in your hand. This is a new era in firearm safety driven by ambition and optimism, motivated by the idea that we can in fact help save people's lives."

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Trespassing teens who died after shootout with homeowner were armed with handgun, machete. Mom of one teen says shooting them was 'not the right way to handle it.'



Police said the pair of trespassing male teens who broke into a Northglenn, Colorado, back yard and died after a shootout with the homeowner Sunday were armed with a semi-automatic handgun and a machete, KUSA-TV reported.

An airsoft gun that reportedly had been stolen from a nearby home was found with the teens but "was not a factor in the shooting," police added to the station.

What are the details?

Officers responded around 2 p.m. to a home in the11600 block of Pearl Street on a report of trespassing and menacing, KUSA said.

Police said Wednesday two juveniles broke a fence to gain entry into the back yard and garage-like structure attached to the home, the station added.

One juvenile had a semi-automatic handgun, and the other had a machete, police told KUSA, adding that both weapons were recovered from the scene.

One of the juveniles and the homeowner exchanged gunfire, police told the station, adding that it's unclear who fired first or how many shots were fired.

Both juveniles were shot and taken to a hospital, where they later died, KUSA said, adding that the homeowner was uninjured.

Police believe the same juveniles burglarized a nearby home just hours before the shootout, KCNC-TV reported, adding that the airsoft gun was the only item stolen from the home.

Mom of one teen says shooting them was 'not the right way to handle it'

Police haven't released the names of the teens, but family members identified one of them as 16-year-old Ismael Cordova, KUSA said.

“He wasn’t a bad kid," Christina Cordova told KUSA of her son. "He was just making a dumb decision, and now he’s gone.”

Christina Cordova also told KUSA she doesn't believe her son or the other teen deserved to die.

“What they were doing in his yard by his house is not right, but that’s not the right way to handle it," Christina Cordova added to the station. "That’s not the right way to handle it.”

Anything else?

Police will present the results of their investigation to the district attorney's office, which will determine what, if any, charges are appropriate, KUSA said.

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SCOTUS vacates ruling that upheld Massachusetts gun control law



The Supreme Court of the United States has vacated a ruling that upheld a recent gun control law passed in Massachusetts. A lower court must now reconsider the law in light of a recent SCOTUS ruling regarding the Second Amendment.

On Monday, SCOTUS vacated the district court's decision regarding Morin v. Lyver. A Massachusetts resident filed the suit after he was barred from purchasing a handgun because he was convicted of unlawfully carrying a firearm back in 2004. The Massachusetts law in question forbids the purchase of a handgun by anyone who has ever been convicted of a nonviolent misdemeanor involving a firearm. It also requires a license to buy a pistol.

Both the district and appeals courts upheld the law. However, SCOTUS has since vacated that decision and asked an appeals court to reconsider now that SCOTUS took a broader view of the Second Amendment in its recent ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen.

Many Second Amendment advocates cheered the 6-3 Bruen ruling, which came down last June. Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the majority opinion in the case, asserted that "because the State of New York issues public-carry licenses only when an applicant demonstrates a special need for self-defense, we conclude that the State's licensing regime violates the Constitution."

Thomas also added that the "constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right'" and that he and the other concurring justices "know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need."

The order to vacate the decision is brief, unsigned, and has no dissents. It reads in total: "21-1160 MORIN, ALFRED V. LYVER, WILLIAM, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for further consideration in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U. S. ___ (2022)."

Texas judge rules that all adults, including 18-year-olds, have the right to open-carry a handgun



A Texas judge has struck down a recent state law that prohibits adult civilians between the ages of 18 and 20 from carrying a handgun, claiming that such a law is unconstitutional.

On Thursday, district court Judge Mark Pittman ruled that the law violated the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Pittman also examined history and determined that prohibiting adults, though young, from carrying handguns openly had no historical precedent.

"The undisputed historical evidence establishes that 18-to-20-year-olds were understood to be a part of the militia in the Founding Era," Pittman wrote in the opinion.

The lawsuit against the state ban was first filed last November by two unnamed adults between the ages of 18 and 20, as well as the Firearms Policy Coalition, a self-described "next generation" gun-rights advocacy group that engages in "litigation, research, scholarly publications, amicus briefing, legislative and regulatory action, grassroots activism, education, outreach, and other programs" to achieve its aims.

This decision in Texas is believed to be the first major Second Amendment judicial ruling since the Supreme Court of the United States struck down stringent gun restriction laws in New York state in June. In his opinion on behalf of the 6-3 majority, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, "We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need," thus gesturing to a broad understanding of the Second Amendment.

Pittman repeatedly cited the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen SCOTUS decision in his ruling to end the ban on open carry of handguns for adults 18 to 20.

That case marks the second time in less than a year that a ruling from Pittman has made national headlines. Back in November, Pittman determined that United Airlines had not violated the religious or civil rights of its employees by placing on unpaid leave those employees who refused to comply with the vaccine mandate. Some employees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area had sued the airline, claiming that the monetary loss from the unpaid leave caused them "imminent, irreparable harm." Pittman disagreed.

"United exempted plaintiffs from the mandate; plaintiffs are not required to violate their religious beliefs,” Pittman said in the opinion. “United’s employees claimed they faced an impossible choice: get the vaccine or endure unpaid leave. But they have chosen the latter. Their dispute thus centers on United’s response to their choice."

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