{"id":10393,"date":"2024-10-08T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=10393"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T08:06:07","slug":"harris-of-course-ive-fired-my-glock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/harris-of-course-ive-fired-my-glock\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris: ‘Of course’ I’ve fired my Glock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris revealed in an interview broadcast Monday that she owns a Glock semi-automatic pistol — and said that “of course” she’d fired it on a shooting range.<\/p>\n

Speculation has swirled about the US vice president’s weapon of choice ever since she told television star Oprah Winfrey recently that she was a gun owner and that she would shoot anyone who broke into her house.<\/p>\n

“I have a Glock, and I’ve had it for quite some time,” Harris said in an interview on the primetime CBS show 60 Minutes when asked what kind of firearm she packed.<\/p>\n

“My background is in law enforcement. And — so there you go,” added the former prosecutor and California attorney general.<\/p>\n

Interviewer Bill Whitaker then asked if Harris had ever fired the Glock. Harris replied with a laugh: “Of course I have. At a shooting range. Yes, of course I have.”<\/p>\n

Austrian manufacturer Glock makes one of America’s best-selling handguns. Widely used by police, Glocks have also attained cult status from their appearance in films and hip-hop culture.<\/p>\n

Until recently Harris had rarely mentioned her status as a firearms owner, in line with her party’s emphasis on curtailing access to guns in a country regularly rocked by armed crime and mass shootings.<\/p>\n

But in a tight election with Republican Donald Trump, the 59-year-old Democrat has begun to play up her gun-owning credentials.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly claimed that Harris wants to confiscate Americans’ guns in violation of the US constitution’s Second Amendment — including in their only televised debate last month.<\/p>\n

Harris fiercely rejected that charge, noting that she and her running mate, Tim Walz, are both gun owners.<\/p>\n

“I’m a gun owner,” she then told Winfrey in September. “If someone breaks in my house, they’re getting shot,” she added with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

Her Glock revelation in was the most eye-catching in an interview that saw Harris carefully navigate tough questioning on hot-button topics like immigration and the economy.<\/p>\n

Trump backed out of a 60 Minutes encounter last week, bucking what the program said was a half-century tradition of both US presidential candidates sitting down with the show before an election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris revealed in an interview broadcast Monday that she owns a Glock semi-automatic pistol — and said that “of course” she’d fired it on a shooting range. Speculation has swirled about the US vice president’s weapon of choice ever since she told television star Oprah Winfrey recently that she was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10394,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions\/10394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}