By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
The Huffington Post is reporting that Vice President Kamala Harris is “taking the lead on the campaign trail this week” on gun control, which the publication describes as “gun violence prevention.”
Harris, who was sued over gun laws in California when she was that state’s attorney general, is head of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Critics say this new office is a thinly-disguised gun control mini-bureaucracy.
According to the HuffPo article, Harris “will participate in a conversation” at the White House on “gun violence prevention.”
On Friday, which is designated National Gun Violence Awareness Day, Harris will host a “Students for Biden” photo op. She will also “team up with Maryland Senate Democratic candidate Angela Alsobrooks to talk gun control.
It is not likely any of her remarks about guns will touch on the ongoing trial of Hunter Biden over alleged gun law violations now going on in a Delaware courtroom. The trial enters its fourth day after sordid testimony about his addiction to crack cocaine, and the purchase of a Colt revolver during which he allegedly lied on a Form 4473 about drug use.
Harris has been a gun control zealot throughout her political career, and she has been attacking former President Donald Trump for his alleged lack of action on gun control while in office. Trump, whose conviction in a New York court last week on 34 charges will reportedly cost him his Second Amendment rights, is running for a second term.
Harris has been making appearances around the country promoting gun control, including so-called “red flag laws,” over the past several months since announcing the White House gun control office.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has published an article which states, “In a major shift since 2020, a population the size of Florida has become first-time, brand-new gun owners. That’s right – more than 22.3 million people who previously had decided firearm ownership wasn’t for them looked around, decided they didn’t like what they were seeing, jumped off the fence and lawfully purchased a gun at retail.”
Out in Washington state, the Department of Licensing is reporting that May ended with 697,380 active concealed pistol licenses in the state, representing a bounce of 2,059 more CPLs over the past month, and a total of 6,273 additional licenses since the end of March.
