By: Gina Morelli
Kamala Harris is one of the most anti-gun candidates in decades.
She is the nominee for a Democratic Party that is getting increasingly radicalized.
And one of her top allies just launched an effort to practically eliminate gun ownership.
One of the new strategies of the anti-gun left is to not directly ban guns, as that is susceptible to being overturned in court, but to make gun ownership prohibitively difficult or expensive.
By doing that, they can claim that they are complying with the Constitution because guns are still “legal,” despite the fact that no one can reasonably afford one.
Obviously this is not actually compliant with the Constitution, and certainly not with the spirit of the Second Amendment, but it is a very dangerous strategy that is becoming widespread.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who holds the same position Kamala Harris used to hold, is the latest Democrat official who is pursuing a strategy like this to make his state gun-free.
He is attempting to make it nearly impossible for people in his state to afford gun ownership in the hopes of driving down the number of people who own guns.
According to Bearing Arms, “California Attorney General Rob Bonta continues to defend the state’s mandatory background checks on ammunition purchases after a federal judge found it unconstitutional, but while trying to keep the law in place he’s also attempting to jack up the cost of those background checks by 400%.
“NSSF’s Larry Keane says Bonta is officially proposing to raise the current background check fee from $1 to $5, despite the fact that U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez has declared the law unconstitutional.”
It’s transparent what Bonta is doing. He is trying to skirt a judge’s ruling by implementing something that has a similar effect but that, in his opinion, can’t be declared unconstitutional.
Either way, he is trying to do an end-run around the Second Amendment to make sure Californians cannot own guns, for their own self-defense or any other reason.
A Shooting News Weekly article has this to say: “With the ammunition background check and fee scheme remaining in place, even as Rhode v. Bonta works through the courts, Bonta hasn’t had his fill and isn’t letting his foot off the gun control gas pedal.
“In an announcement posted on the CalDOJ’s website on Aug. 23, AG Bonta proposed jacking up the ammunition check fee cost from one dollar to five dollars, a 400 percent increase that all law-abiding Californians will bear each and every time they want to buy ammunition.”
Someone should ask Kamala Harris what she thinks of this new policy that her successor in the California AG’s office is trying to implement.
Harris downplayed her longtime anti-gun sentiments during the debate by claiming on live TV that she and Tim Walz are both gun owners.
She clearly doesn’t want to scare off gun owners from voting for her, but it will be extremely telling to see if she is willing to condemn this policy in her home state.