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Vice President Kamala Harris told “60 Minutes” Monday that she owns a Glock handgun — triggering allegations of hypocrisy due to her own past support for firearm bans and questions about whether she’s complying with existing gun-control laws.
“I have a Glock and I’ve had it for quite some time,” the 59-year-old Harris told CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker.
“My background is in law enforcement, so there you go.”
Asked if she had ever fired the gun, Harris laughingly replied, “Yes, of course I have, at a shooting range— yes, of course I have.”
Harris previously supported handgun bans in both San Francisco, where she began her political career and served as district attorney between 2004 and 2011, and Washington, where she has served in federal office since 2017.
California state law requires gun buyers to have a Firearm Safety Certificate and DC requires all handguns to be registered.
Glocks, furthermore, cannot legally have magazines with a capacity of more than 10 bullets in the nation’s capital, and some models of Glock come with a standard capacity that exceeds that limit.
“DC residents have to register their firearms. And DC issues a gun-registration ID card for each firearm, with the make, model, and serial number. Post your card, Kamala,” tweeted Mike Davis, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and a former Senate Judiciary Committee aide.
“Maybe Kamala left her Glock in California? Does she have her firearm safety certificate?” Davis added.
“Kamala says she owns a Glock,” echoed country music star John Rich. “She was also in favor of banning what she called ‘high capacity magazines’ which is anything over 7 rounds. Every Glock magazine holds at least ten rounds, and most hold more than 15.
“She’s a joke with endless punchlines,” Rich concluded.
Others pointed out that Harris in 2005 supported a San Francisco ballot measure called Proposition H that would have banned city residents from owning handguns.
In 2008, still as San Francisco district attorney, Harris signed an amicus brief supporting DC’s government in the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller, which led to the Supreme Court invalidating the capital’s ban on handguns.
Others expressed skepticism that Harris actually owns a Glock — after Trump previously accused her of lying about other uncorroborated biographical claims, such as working at McDonald’s during a summer while attending college.
Conservative commentator Dana Loesch wrote of Harris’ purported Glock ownership: “She doesn’t [have a gun], and she doesn’t even know there are different models, either.”
Harris has repeatedly called herself a gun owner to cast herself as a moderate on the topic of gun rights as she also calls for a ban on semiautomatic weapons.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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