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Kamala Harris vows executive action on gun control if elected president
The Hill ^ | 04/22/19 | Zack Budryk

Posted on 04/22/2019 8:07:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) vowed sweeping executive action on gun control if she is elected president, detailing her proposals for gun safety to a CNN town hall audience Monday night.

Asked about her plan for addressing gun violence and school shootings in particular, Harris vowed that if Congress fails to “get their act together” and pass meaningful gun control legislation in the first 100 days of her presidency, she will sign an executive order requiring any retailer selling more than five guns a year to conduct background checks.

Harris has also proposed revoking the licenses of gun manufacturers and dealers who break the law and fining manufacturers up to $500,000 per violation, with the money going toward community-based violence intervention programs, according to CNN. She would also expand federal laws prohibiting firearms sales to domestic abusers to cover dating partners as well as spouses.

Harris has also proposed overturning a Trump administration rule that narrowed the definition of a “fugitive from justice.” Under the administration’s definition, a person can buy a gun unless they can be shown to have fled a state to avoid charges. The California senator's proposal would broaden this to include anyone with an outstanding arrest warrant, according to CNN.

Harris has previously revealed that she herself owns a gun for personal protection, saying earlier this month that Americans “are being offered a false choice which suggests you’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; alreadyposted; anchorbaby; banglist; california; fixbayonets; guncontrol; jackbootedfascist; kamalaharris; nra; secondamendment
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To: max americana

The SocialDemocrat horde of Candidates all either already espouse or will espouse drastic gun control measures that require either Fiat or Democrat Congressional majorities and will take no account of the Constitution. If it looks like the SDs look as if they might just win in 2020 the gun buying spree will ramp up to new heights. Reloading gear will probably also fly off the shelves but buyers have to also buy all the primers they can get. Just about everything can be made, substituted or scavenged in the garage but I don’t think primers can.


61 posted on 04/23/2019 1:45:53 AM PDT by arthurus (D)
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To: yesthatjallen

Dear little bulletproof Kamala . This should be interesting .


62 posted on 04/23/2019 3:12:45 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Also know as 'Horizontal Harris" and Kamala "Kneepad" Harris


63 posted on 04/23/2019 4:01:35 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (In the 20th Century Britain fell from world superpower to just another backwater muslim colony)
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To: yesthatjallen

Such stupidity. We have thousands of laws on the books now and they have no effect: BECAUSE GUNS DON’T SHOOT BY THEMSELVES! People fire guns and there is no law that will stop that. When the hell will they learn that?


64 posted on 04/23/2019 5:15:59 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist
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To: yesthatjallen

Why is she running? She’s not eligible.


65 posted on 04/23/2019 5:26:17 AM PDT by dljordan
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