While pushing back on a claim from former President Trump during Tuesday’s debate, Vice President Harris brought up her own record of gun ownership.
“This business about taking everyone’s guns away – Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away, so stop with the continuous lying about this stuff,” Harris said during Tuesday night’s debate between the two presidential candidates.
While the statement may have surprised some watching the debate, Harris first revealed she was a gun owner in 2019 while she was running for president in the Democratic primary: “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.”
Trump also owns guns, including three pistols registered under a concealed carry license in New York. According to the New York Times, the NYPD moved to …