If Congress won't work with her, Senator Harris plans to go it alone on an assault weapons ban should she ascend to the White House next fall.
Senator Kamala Harris, D-Calif., announced on Wednesday that, if elected president, she would move to ban the importation of “assault weapons” into the United States. Harris, who is running for the 2020 Democratic nomination, indicated that her efforts would involve unilateral action from the White House if Congress doesn’t put legislation on her desk.
Harris is also a co-sponsor of a Senate bill that would revive a Clinton-era statute banning assault weapons outright. Other co-sponsors of the Senate bill include fellow 2020 Democratic candidates Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders. Her campaign also issued a call to kneecap a federal law that protects gun manufacturers and sellers when their weapons are used in criminal activities. The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act , passed by Congress in 2005, inoculates gun makers against civil suits unless their actions violate an existing gun control rule. This shields firearms companies from common-law and other legal liabilities that are otherwise generally applicable to U.S. corporations.
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