After more than 40 days as the Democratic nominee for President, Kamala Harris debuted her official campaign platform on the eve of the upcoming debates with Donald Trump. 

The new Issues page on the candidate's website, moving past a wide range of progressive hot-button topics, dedicates an entire section to "Gun Violence and Crime."

Taking a victory lap for "removing over 12,000 illegal guns from the streets of California" while that state's attorney general but without mentioning the deeply flawed and expensive firearm seizure program she oversaw during that period, Harris pivoted to what she has done under the Biden administration in the past four years. 

This included touting the "first major gun safety law in nearly 30 years," the rushed Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which did nothing for the country's more than 80 million gun owners but has been used to initiate backdoor universal background checks and other constitutionally suspect restrictions. She also took a figurative bow for establishing the taxpayer-funded first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which employs former members of national anti-gun groups in key roles to develop national policy. 

"She’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks, and support red flag laws..." -- Kamala Harris' official platform agenda. 

Finally, Harris moved to what she has planned for the future, should she move into the Oval Office, saying "She’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks, and support red flag laws that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people." 

This should come as little surprise to those who have followed the official Democratic National Committee policy platform as well as Harris' own words at public events in recent days. 

At her and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's first public event in Philadelphia on Aug. 7, Harris told the crowd plainly, "Together, when we win in November, we are finally going to pass universal background checks, red flag flaws, and an assault weapons ban."

National gun control groups quickly praised the platform, with Giffords saying in a statement, "The goals outlined in the agenda build on Vice President Harris’ longstanding commitment to keeping communities safe." 

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