The National Rifle Association (NRA) schooled Vice President Kamala Harris over the Biden administration’s determination to ban assault weapons.
“@JoeBiden has taken on the @NRA and won. He can do it again,” Harris posted on X on Tuesday, along with a graphic celebrating President Joe Biden’s promise to “ban assault weapons.”
The NRA then clapped back with a blistering response to Harris, telling the vice president that she needs a history lesson on Biden’s work in the 1990s to ban assault weapons.
“Vice President Harris should learn her history before going on social media. She’s referring to Biden’s 1994 vote for the ‘assault weapons’ ban as his big so-called victory,” NRA spokesman Billy McLaughlin told Fox News on Wednesday. “Yet, thanks to the NRA, the ban expired in 2004. And, AR-15 ownership surged from 850,000 then to 25 million today.”
The gun rights group went on to argue that liberals have been vilifying AR-15s despite their life-saving purposes.
“A 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,” McLaughlin added, citing a 2019 case where a pregnant mom fatally shot an armed intruder and sent another suspect fleeing.
This comes as discussions on gun control legislation have been a hot-button issue recently following a series of mass shootings in the U.S. Since then, Biden has reiterated his rhetoric against the Second Amendment.
During a speech earlier this year, the president stated unequivocally, “We’re going to ban assault weapons,” adding, “We banned it once, we’re going to do it again, and the number of bullets that can be in a clip.”
When asked for their response to the NRA’s statement, the White House directed Fox News to the Biden campaign.
“Time 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 — and it’s a losing choice,” Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz told the news outlet on Thursday.
