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What is Kamala Harris’s policy on gun laws?

What is Kamala Harris’s policy on gun laws?

Mass shootings, a depressingly common occurrence in the United States, have generally led to greater support for more restrictive gun laws. Twice this century — after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 and the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017 — there have been dramatic shifts in polling that have resulted in a seemingly permanent increase in the share of Americans who say support stricter gun laws. However, the political coalition to pursue radical reform never materialized. Still, Democrats have long championed a suite of “common sense” gun reforms that stop well short of a wholesale overhaul of gun ownership rights in the United States, and Kamala Harris is no exception.

A gun owner’s modest reform platform