In a Second Amendment bombshell of a story, Fox News on Wednesday reported that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee for president, once said that law enforcement officers could walk into private citizens’ homes and inspect how they were storing their firearms.
In May 2007, Harris, then San Francisco district attorney, told a group of reporters that the safe storage law being considered by the city’s board of supervisors at the time allowed such an invasion of privacy.
“We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,” Harris said.
According to Fox, Harris also said the new measure was about legislating “our values” in an attempt to “encourage certain kinds of behavior.”
“When we create laws,” she said, “it’s not only about creating an opportunity, if you will, to prosecute someone for committing a crime, but more importantly, when we legislate our values, it’s about trying to encourage certain types of behavior.”
Whether or not Harris would still think that way, or even think such an intrusion would be OK if a federal safe-storage law were to be passed, is not known. However, she has said multiple times recently that her values “have not changed” in response to allegations of flip-flopping on a number of important policy matters.
The revelation about Harris’s comments concerning the California safe storage law come as anti-gun lawmakers throughout much of the country clamor for such laws and more after a recent Georgia school shooting.
We’ve reported many times over the past few months how Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, favor many anti-gun schemes and gun-ban proposals, including compensated confiscation of guns they deem to be “assault weapons.” For her part, however, Harris disputes that claim that she would “take everyone’s guns away” despite being in favor of that very thing when she was running for president back in 2019.
Harris and Walz also favor so-called “universal” background checks, mandatory safe-storage laws, repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a federal red-flag law,, increased funding for the ATF, increased funding for the FBI to conduct more background checks and increased funding for the CDC, “because the gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis.” Incidentally, all of those anti-gun ideas are highlighted in the latest Democratic Party Platform.
If you don’t let government authorities enter your home to check for safe storage you’re a threat to democracy.
Come now. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, as another prominent socialist famously said toward the middle of the last century.
Nothing new, for centuries Gun Control democRat Party slave masters, the democrat Party Jim Crow kkk et al barged into the homes of Blacks and others misfits checking for weapons of any type.
The cackling hyena is what Judge Joe Brown says she’s is…a pos. Want to see what the cackling pos did to a mother carrying for a sick child? To view Connect the h
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More recently, there was a Facebook exchange between a local chapter President for Moms Demand Action and some of her critics on exactly this issue (page long since deleted). The demanding Mom paraphrased the quote often attributed to Joseph Goebbels. A critic posted back the exact quote, to which the Demanding Mommy responded, “This Mr. Goebbels is a wise man.” TTAG didn’t cover it on their main page, but did cover it on their Facebook page.
Not that the thought was new with or unique to Goebbels, as you point out. This has been the pro-jackboot argument since long before they invented jackboots.
And Trump is supposed to be a threat to democracy?
She also said that the mass deportation of illegal criminal aliens was wrong because law enforcement would have to go into their homes to arrest them. I’m beginning to look forward to the war. This nation seriously needs a Purge.
Reminds me of Elian Gonzalez that was rooted out of a relatives home in Florida by ‘Shock Troops’ and sent back to Communist Cuba on orders of A.G. Janet Reno and her boss Bill. Fidel used this as a public relations event.
Fourth Amendment, look it up sweetheart.
Ignoring the other nine original amendments invariably leads to the use of the 2nd one.
If today’s Marxist Democrats take the Senate and White House, they will stack the courts with “men can get pregnant” and “I don’t know what a woman is” America-hating judges and Justices and they will make decisions that render those Amendments useless. That is what is at stake on Nov. 5, 2024. Nothing less.
Home invaders tend to not wait politely at the door while you open your safe, get your gun, go to where your ammo is separately stored, load your gun, and come back.
In the critical moment, a “safely stored” gun is a nonexistent one.
The FBI reports that home invaders murder about 100 people a year, whereas family and acquaintances murder 5000 in the home. Also there are about 700 accidental deaths each year almost all by youngsters, with nearly 1/3 being with unlocked accessible guns in the home. So more deaths are caused by easy access to guns than home invaders. And having an unlocked gun in the home increases the risk of suicide….. “Research shows that access to a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide death by 300%.”
Peer-reviewed studies show that homes with guns do not have fewer gun deaths but nearly three times as many, homicides by family members and friends, suicides, and accidental deaths. If you have a gun and are willing to gamble with your family’s risk of being shot, you don’t qualify to own a gun.
Walk in my house without a warrant, and one of us is going out in a bag.
Ipray that it is’nt you Mike.
Under many circumstances, any warrant would be irrelevant. I’ve had corrupt cops show up at my door unannounced and without a warrant. They lost bowel control as well as bladder control before they bravely ran away.
As both federal and state law require a warrant, that is assumed.
Democrats are communists that hate the Constitution.
This is how it is in Canada; the Federal police force, the RCMP, can show up at your door without warning and demand to see that your firearms are stored unloaded in a locked safe, separate from the ammunition. They know you have firearms because you must obtain a permit to purchase. If you are not in compliance, they will take your firearms and you will not be able to purchase any more.
A quick and dirty search of the Interwebs reveals you can carry a firearm on your person in San Francisco, but otherwise firearms must be secured.
Johnny,
Not quite correct. CA still bans “open carry”, and SF requires a CCL for anything else in public (SF is STILL a “may issue” jurisdiction). And the ONLY people who get CCLs are those who “know somebody” or make sufficient campaign donations. I, personally, have jumped through the hoops in The Democratic People’s Republic of KKKalifornia (and found a loophole that let me get it without a $10K campaign donation to our local Sheriff (the ‘going price’, at the time), and continued to practice law in (and carry a gun in) CA until I finally got sick of the bullsh*t, and decamped for saner places. In response to the Bruen cases, CA has made less-than-minimal efforts to “comply” with Bruen, but any remaining CA gun owner can tell you that it is NOT a ‘friendly’ environment for those seeking to exercise their INHERENT right to self-defense. Just sayin’.
“Harris and Walz also favor … increased funding for the ATF, increased funding for the FBI to conduct more background checks …”
I purchased a rimfire rifle in the last few days and the background check was literally instantaneous (with a “proceed” of course).
According to SilencerShop, ATF is approving at least half of suppressor (A.K.A. “silencers”) tax stamps for trusts in less than 17 days and at least half of tax stamps for individuals in 2 days or less.
Based on those two tidbits, it would appear that increased funding has already occurred and fedzilla is approving firearm transactions in bewilderingly fast times.
If you have ever considered buying a suppressor, do it now. (I know, I know: we should not have to pay a $200 tax and wait for approval on a Constitutional right. I was in the same boat when approval times for suppressors was 12+ months. Now that suppressor approval times are typically a few days, it makes that $200 tax “bitter pill” a LOT easier to swallow given the benefits of a suppressor.)
“According to SilencerShop, ATF is approving at least half of suppressor (A.K.A. “silencers”) tax stamps for trusts in less than 17 days and at least half of tax stamps for individuals in 2 days or less.
Based on those two tidbits, it would appear that increased funding has already occurred and fedzilla is approving firearm transactions in bewilderingly fast times.”
Not increased funding. When you purchase these cans you relinquish the right to privacy. The BATFECES can show up anytime and demand to see that can. I think their attitude is cans aren’t dangerous so let’s expidite the delivery to the serfs. After they receive the can we don’t need a warrant. We can kill your dog and you if you blink.
“This is completely false! These are unfounded rumors. The BATFE cannot and will not show up at your home to inspect your NFA items. Ever. At least not without a warrant, and they damn sure cannot enter your property without a warrant.”
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-truth-about-nfa-inspection/
you are incorrect on the ATF, not requiring a warrant to check NFA items. They require a warrant if they do not have a warrant, turn them away. This is a common misconception that warrents are no longer required. Both form 1 and form 4 are being approved for individuals and record time. My last item was a two stamp item and it was approved in two days.
Gonna look into it Ross. What I posted is what I thought was true Not trying to be funny, I don’t want to post misinformation.
I truly thought that if you had an NFA item you were wide open to cavity searches.
You’re good mate, as an NFA holder I hear that a lot, common misconception.
Ross,
If ATF is approving short-barreled rifles in something like two days, I have to seriously consider going through that process to purchase a short-barreled rifle.
At this point, though, I may wait to see if a court case invalidates the National Firearms Act requirement of obtaining fedzilla’s approval (including paying the $200 tax) before acquiring a short-barreled rifle.
My last two stamp (suppressed SBR) was my fastest to date, most are 3 days to a week. The longest was 10.5 months, but that was a few years back.
Anyone kills my dog, I respond with thermonuclear hand grenades.
“When you purchase these cans you relinquish the right to privacy. The BATFECES can show up anytime and demand to see that can.”
That’s a little bit of a myth. The ATF still requires a warrant to see your suppressor.
If they don’t have a warrant you can say “nope, I’m not showing you anything. Go away, you are causing me to fear for my safety by your presence. If you do not immediately leave, I am prepared to defend my home and I am calling 911 to report armed trespassers refusing to leave my property.”
(note: its is not a threat to say you are “prepared to defend” your home and you do not need to say how or answer questions about it. ATF showing up for such a purpose without a warrant, yeah, they can knock and ask and receive a response (your “nope. not showing you anything”) but once they do that their ‘knock n talk’ is over and they have no more legal justification to remain on your property especially when they have been told to leave and if they do remain and continue talking they are no longer acting legally as law enforcement and are venturing into trespass and ‘threat’ territory.
I also just picked up a firearm. I had the same experience with an immediate background check approval. They’re finally using modern technology. I assume it wasn’t fully automated a couple of years ago.
Dude,
“I assume it wasn’t fully automated a couple of years ago.”
I agree with your assessment. NICS appears to be fully automated now.
When I purchased a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee two years ago, that Licensee called in the background check to the NICS telephone system. The Licensee read off all of the pertinent information and got the “proceed” response pretty much immediately after reading off the last word on the Form 4473. This purchase experience was different: I filled out the Form 4473 on a tablet computer and NICS appeared to return a “proceed” as soon as the Licensee hit the “send” button.
Almost all of my NICS approvals have been very quick(like 20 transactions or more). One from Cabelas was the longest but I chalk that up to extreme ineptness. Never again do I getta gat from a chainstore. Silencers et all are irrelevant living in ILLANNOY.
Our doors are all locked, thereby, our firearms are secure.
They want the government in your bedroom, telling you how to live. Sound familiar? It isn’t hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy.
Oh that dear woman, don’t you just love her?
Heh, that sound Southern. “Well bless her heart.”
Harris is simply demonstrating what we all knew all along, It’s not about the guns it’s about the control.
Isn’t this the law in Washington state? They talked about in home firearm storage inspections several years ago.
The Brits fell for this nonsense too. Then they made the gun owners store what few guns they allowed at gun clubs. Then they told them if and when they could handle their own guns.
And people went along with it.
That is going to be very difficult to do in the USA.
The essence of the second amendment is private property rights. We have the right to keep and bear the physical property of Arms.
Having the physical property of Arms is the only physical object guaranteed in our founding documents.
Not a horse for transportation. Not land to plant and raise crops. None of that, the only thing you’re guaranteed. As a natural born, American citizen is the right, to keep and bear the physical property of Arms.
You will have to work for everything else.
And you have the right to travel in the United States because on the second amendment, it says you have the right to keep and bear arms and travel. Wherever you go with them.
Damned if you do damned if you dont. You got Harris and you got Mr “take the guns then go to court later, we do not do due process around here, we have executive orders.”
That is like saying a shoplifter and a serial killer are both criminals.
““We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,” Harris said.”
““When we create laws,” she said, “it’s not only about creating an opportunity, if you will, to prosecute someone for committing a crime, but more importantly, when we legislate our values, it’s about trying to encourage certain types of behavior.””
Tick tick tick…you fucking cunt…
Will she make it a mandatory law to love Big Brother?
And yet millions of gun owning democrats will vote for her???
They’d rather have the “right” to get high and sterilize their mentally ill grade schooler than keep and bear arms or be free from unlawful search and seizure.
Priorities.
I have many well-meaning democrat friends. I wish they would realize that their own party holds them in contempt, lying to them over and over and over, eroding their rights, and causing the very harms it claims to be trying to solve. It’s shameless and shameful. The democrat party is nothing but a propaganda machine, spinning falsehoods in pursuit of power. Far too many people still can’t see through the lies.
Self-sabotage is a thing. Then there is the tribalism aspect.
Here is the link to the video showing her making the statement.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1836429342806806920
seems the ‘background shadow censorship’ is active this morning at TTAG.
Bring it on, you dumb bitch.
Democrats don’t even pretend to care about the Constitution anymore. Hilary recently said that the government needs to be able to take civil or criminal action against Americans passing disinformation on social media.
Democrat leaders have gone from being unAmerican to actually anti American.
Using 1A and 2A to weaken 4A… Pure genius.
We’ll never get rid of the rednecks if we don’t get rid of the guns. And the land. They need to watch their damn mouths too.
It seems that KamelToe has never heard of the 4th Amendment. But then I have to wonder if she has ever read the Constitution at all?
Rhetorical question I know, and of course we can’t answer that.
But if I was forced to guess, I’d say she has read the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and understands them perfectly well, but is more focused on a set of desired outcomes.
If today’s Marxist Democrats take the Senate and White House, they will stack the courts with “men can get pregnant” and “I don’t know what a woman is” America-hating judges and Justices and they will make decisions that render those Amendments useless. That is what is at stake on Nov. 5, 2024. Nothing less.
These people believe that the very few civilians authorized to even own firearms need to store them disassembled and locked up behind massive gun safes with the ammo locked up similarly and stored in another room (if not in a seperate property).
If I recall correctly, SCOTUS already shot down similar DC regulations as unconstitutional. Not that that would matter to Harris.
It has become obvious that citizens with firearms are a impediment to the Tyrants of destruction.
TTAG needs to run frequent regular columns on gun owners needing to be registered to vote and getting out the vote. There’s talk that hundreds of thousands are not registered, many in swing states.
Trump isn’t perfect on 2A but he’s ten thousand percent better than the alternative.
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