Here's where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris stand on guns

Gun power is 1 of nan astir polarizing issues successful American politics, and it's been a taxable of contention successful nan 2024 statesmanlike election. Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump have been astatine likelihood complete guns — Trump has told voters Harris "wants to confiscate your guns," a constituent Harris denies. She wants to spot stronger weapon power laws connected nan books but besides says she's a weapon owner. Here are Trump's and Harris' stances and argumentation plans to reside weapon unit successful America.

Kamala Harris' stance connected guns

• Harris says she favors nan Second Amendment and said successful nan Sept. 10 statement pinch Trump that she owns a gun, a revelation she primitively made erstwhile she ran for president successful In 2019. "I ain a weapon for astir apt nan logic a batch of group do — for individual safety," she said astatine nan time. "I was a profession prosecutor." She recently told 60 Minutes she owns a Glock and has fired it astatine a shooting range. 
• Harris oversees the White House Office of Gun Violence and Prevention, which was created by nan Biden management successful 2023 pinch an oculus toward uncovering ways astir legislature inaction connected stronger weapon power laws.
  
• The Biden management successful 2022 enacted the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act successful nan aftermath of nan wide shootings successful Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York. It represents nan astir important update to weapon information rule successful almost 3 decades, augmenting inheritance checks for weapon buyers nether 21, providing billions for intelligence wellness services and closing nan alleged "boyfriend loophole" to forestall convicted home abusers from purchasing a firearm for 5 years. It besides clarified nan meaning of weapon dealers. The rule faces challenges from 26 GOP-led states that are suing to artifact it. 
• Harris' moving mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, besides owns a weapon and is an avid hunter. He moreover held an "A" standing from nan NRA astatine 1 time, but his people fell to an "F" successful 2018, erstwhile he backed stricter weapon laws successful Minnesota pursuing nan Parkland, Florida, schoolhouse shooting. On nan run way successful October 2024, Walz went hunting pinch his ain Beretta successful an entreaty to weapon owners. 

Kamala Harris' argumentation plans connected guns

• Harris oversees nan White House Office of Gun Violence and Prevention, which was created by nan Biden management successful 2023 successful bid to find a measurement astir legislature inaction connected stronger weapon power laws. 
• Her run website says if Harris is elected, she would "ban battle weapons and high-capacity magazines, require cosmopolitan inheritance checks, and support reddish emblem laws that support guns retired of nan hands of vulnerable people."
• Though she says she is simply a Second Amendment advocate, Harris besides favors stronger weapon power measures. In a reside connected Sept. 12, Harris promised to "pass an battle weapons ban, cosmopolitan inheritance checks and reddish emblem laws."
• While moving for president successful 2019, Harris vowed to return executive action connected guns, saying successful April 2019 that she would instrumentality "near-universal" inheritance checks, adjacent loopholes to forestall those convicted of home unit from obtaining firearms and revoke licenses from weapon manufacturers and dealers who break nan law. In Oct. 2019 she said she supported a mandatory weapon buyback program, but astatine nan Sept. 10 debate, she told Trump, "We're not taking anybody's guns away, truthful extremity pinch nan continuous lying astir this stuff."

Donald Trump's stance connected guns

• Trump "believes that each American has a God-given correct to protect themselves and their family and has proven done his actions that he will take sides law-abiding weapon owners," his run said.
• The NRA endorsed Trump successful May astatine its yearly convention, and he has addressed nan group respective times, including successful 2022, soon aft nan Uvalde wide shooting. 
• Shortly aft taking agency successful 2017, Trump signed a bill that rolled backmost an Obama-era regularisation that made it harder for group pinch intelligence illnesses to acquisition a gun.
• During a White House listening convention pinch students and families affected by nan 2018 Parkland wide shooting, Trump suggested bonuses for teachers who are "adept astatine guns" and offered support for providing concealed transportation permits for teachers aliases retired subject unit connected campus.
• After nan Las Vegas wide shooting successful Oct. 2017, nan Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms nether nan Trump management banned bump stocks, devices that greatly summation nan complaint of occurrence of semi-automatic weapons. The prohibition was later struck down by nan Supreme Court. 

Donald Trump's argumentation plans for guns

• Trump's run said successful a connection that he would "terminate each azygous 1 of nan Harris-Biden's attacks connected law-abiding weapon owners his first week successful agency and guidelines up for our constitutionally enshrined correct to carnivore arms."
• He has not spoken connected nan run way astir circumstantial argumentation proposals connected guns. At nan NRA's Great American Outdoor Show successful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, successful February, Trump promised that "no 1 will laic a digit connected your firearms" if he wins nan election. 
• Trump said successful nan aforesaid reside he "did nothing" to restrict guns while he was successful nan White House, though his management enacted nan 2017 bump banal ban. After nan 2018 wide shooting successful Parkland, Florida, he called connected Congress to walk bipartisan authorities to fortify and amended nan nationalist instant criminal inheritance cheque system. And aft nan 2019 wide shootings successful El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, Trump reiterated support for "red flag" laws and stronger inheritance checks, though galore Second Amendment activists fought nan measure, and it was ultimately abandoned later that year. 

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