{"id":5133,"date":"2023-08-25T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:42:41","slug":"nra-digs-up-history-to-push-back-on-kamala-harris-claim-on-assault-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5133","title":{"rendered":"NRA digs up history to push back on Kamala Harris\u2019 claim on \u2018assault\u2019 ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-130.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-5135\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-130.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-130.png 931w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-130-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-130-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-130-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-130-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The NRA issued a response to Vice President Kamala Harris tweeting that President Biden has &#8220;taken on the NRA and won&#8221; and will again work to ban so-called &#8220;assault weapons.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Rifle Association (NRA) issued a blistering response to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a>&nbsp;arguing President Biden will ban so-called \u201cassault weapons.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c@JoeBiden has taken on the @NRA and won. He can do it again,\u201d Harris tweeted Tuesday evening, accompanied by a campaign ad celebrating Biden\u2019s determination to \u201cban assault weapons.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NRA shot back in exclusive comment to Fox News Digital on Wednesday that Harris needs a history lesson on Biden\u2019s work in the 1990s to ban so-called \u201cassault weapons.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVice President Harris should learn her history before going on social media. She\u2019s referring to Biden\u2019s 1994 vote for the \u2018assault weapons\u2019 ban as his big so-called victory,\u201d NRA spokesman Billy McLaughlin told Fox News Digital.<strong>\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Yet, thanks to the NRA, the ban expired in 2004. And, AR-15 ownership surged from 850,000 then to 25 million today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden, while serving as a Delaware senator, voted to ban semi-automatic firearms in 1994 as part of a major crime bill, while the Democrat-majority House at the time passed the ban as a standalone bill. The bill ultimately was incorporated into the sweeping anti-crime package and required exceptions in order to pass, including a sunset provision.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill was passed by Congress and signed into law by former President Bill Clinton in September of that year. It enacted a 10-year ban on the manufacture, transfer or possession of \u201csemiautomatic assault weapons\u201d and \u201clarge capacity ammunition feeding devices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/democrats\">Democrats suffered historical losses<\/a>&nbsp;the next election season, ceding control of both chambers of Congress to Republicans, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said at the time she did not realize \u201cthe power of the NRA in [Washington, D.C.].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law expired in 2004, when George W. Bush was president and Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven President Clinton\u2019s DOJ conceded the ban was ineffective,\u201d McLaughlin said in his statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department\">Department of Justice study<\/a>&nbsp;published in 1999 that examined the short-term effects of the ban and found it \u201cfailed to reduce the average number of victims per gun murder incident or multiple gunshot wound victims.\u201d Another DOJ study published in 2004 determined the ban\u2019s \u201ceffects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats, including Biden, have continued championing the bill as one that&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/mass-shootings\">curbed mass shootings<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed. It was the law for the longest time. And it brought down these mass killings. We should do it again,\u201d Biden said in 2021 following a grocery store shooting in Boulder, Colorado.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NRA argued that the AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle frequently classified by liberals as an \u201cassault weapon,\u201d is wildly popular and described it&nbsp;as \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/personal-freedoms\/second-amendment\">America\u2019s top self-defense rifle<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA testament to this is the 8-month pregnant Florida mother who, with her AR-15, defended her family from two armed intruders who brutally assaulted her husband. Joe and Kamala ought to speak to the many ignored and forgotten law-abiding Americans who rely on AR-15s for their safety,\u201d McLaughlin continued, citing a 2019 case where a pregnant mom fatally shot an armed intruder and sent another suspect fleeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/white-house\">The White House<\/a>&nbsp;directed Fox News Digital to the Biden campaign team when approached for comment on the NRA\u2019s statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTime and time again, the gun lobby has chosen profits over human lives. The NRA doubling down on their deeply unpopular and dangerous support for weapons of war in our communities is a choice \u2014 and it\u2019s a losing choice,\u201d Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz told Fox News Digital on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NRA continued in its statement that the \u201csimple and painful truth is\u201d&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\">the Biden administration<\/a>&nbsp;is working to \u201cpersecute law-abiding gun owners,\u201d while Americans are \u201cunder siege from criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re playing politics with human lives and are blind to the fact that their pro-criminal policies drive more people to buy guns. But then again, perhaps the President hesitates on enforcing gun laws because of issues closer to home,\u201d McLaughlin concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/nra-digs-up-history-to-push-back-on-kamala-harris-claim-on-assault-ban\/\">https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/nra-digs-up-history-to-push-back-on-kamala-harris-claim-on-assault-ban\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA issued a response to Vice President Kamala Harris tweeting that President Biden has &#8220;taken on the NRA and won&#8221; and will again work to ban so-called &#8220;assault weapons.&#8221; The National Rifle Association (NRA) issued a blistering response to&nbsp;Vice President Kamala Harris&nbsp;arguing President Biden will ban so-called \u201cassault weapons.\u201d&nbsp; \u201c@JoeBiden has taken on the @NRA and won. He can do it again,\u201d Harris tweeted Tuesday evening, accompanied by a campaign ad celebrating Biden\u2019s determination to \u201cban assault weapons.\u201d&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}