Kamala Harris says she owns a gun "for personal safety"

[TexasTowelie]

Sen. Kamala Harris has called for banning assault weapons and requiring universal background checks, and made passionate calls for action by Congress on gun control. But she also owns a gun herself, she said Thursday.

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

Her weapon is a handgun that she purchased year ago and keeps locked up, a Harris aide told CNN.

Gun control has been a big issue for Harris in her career as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general. In San Francisco, she fought for stricter penalties for gun crimes and filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in support of Washington, D.C.’s ban on most personal handgun ownership.

Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/12/kamala-harris-gun-ownership-gun-control-presidential-campaign/

[Kaleva]

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