How Harris and Walz plan to attack Second Amendment

by Lee Williams

6:00am Friday, August 30, 2024

If you’re planning tyranny, at least don’t put it in writing. That seems to be the guiding principle behind the Harris-Walz administration’s 2024 Democratic Party Platform. In terms of gun control, their once radical ideas are now missing or appear watered down.

The campaign platform includes its gun control plans, called “Protecting Communities & Tackling the Scourge of Gun Violence.”

According to the platform, the Democrats want:

Universal background checks
“Assault weapon” and standard-capacity magazine bans
Mandatory safe-storage laws
Repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
Increased red-flag laws
Increased funding for the ATF
Increased funding for the FBI, to conduct more background checks
Increased funding for the CDC, “because the gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis”

Most of these ideas are unconstitutional, and all have been floated before. They’re bad enough, but the real issue is what was not included in the platform, because if Harris and Walz told voters their true intent, they’d never get elected.

Based on what the candidates have done in the past, and what they’ve been quoted saying — when the corporate media actually did their job and held them accountable — here’s what you can actually expect from the Harris-Walz administration.

AR-15 confiscation

Tim Walz and the AR-15 have one thing in common: Neither has ever been to war. Still, Walz likes to conflate the semi-automatic AR-15 with the select-fire M4, which the documented valor thief falsely claims to have carried into battle. Harris has said numerous times she wants a “mandatory buyback” of ARs, which is nothing more than a smokescreen for mandatory confiscation. Don’t think these two will stop at ARs. Expect a host of other weapons to be added to their confiscation list, including many popular rifles, shotguns and handguns.

Criminalization of the ATF

During the pandemic, Gov. Walz ordered police to keep Minnesotans indoors. If officers encountered folks outside their homes, either on their porch or in their yard, he ordered police to shoot them with paintballs. To be clear, if a civilian did the same, they would face aggravated battery charges. To no one’s surprise, some officers complied with Walz’s illegal order. This proves Walz has no compunction with ordering law enforcement to break the law and violate civil rights. If elected, the Harris-Walz administration will find a group of federal officers more than willing to carry out their illegal orders — the ATF. Like Walz, ATF agents have proven they do not care about civil rights or breaking state law. Expect a massive surge in unconstitutional “knock & talks” — home invasions conducted under the guise of what the ATF calls “consensual encounters.” Once unleashed, the ATF will target law-abiding gun owners and federally licensed gun dealers with a frequency and a ferocity never seen before.

Total civilian disarmament

Both Harris and Walz harbor radical political views. Walz has visited communist China dozens of times and has lauded their oppressive regime for actions that would clearly violate the U.S. Constitution. Harris, when asked how she plans to lower consumer prices, immediately defaulted to Soviet-style price controls, which did not work in the Soviet Union and would not work here. There is little doubt that either Walz or Harris would miss one of the first rules in the radicals’ playbook — ban civilian firearm possession. Total civilian disarmament has always been their true goal, regardless of what’s codified in their party platform.

Unconstitutional state laws

Last year, at the insistence of Barack Obama, Joe Biden put Harris in charge of the new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Biden said would “centralize, accelerate, and intensify our work to save more lives more quickly.” The Office has no website. Its budget has never been made public. Its staffing levels are not known. It operates in secret, without oversight and wields tremendous power. Only three staffers were identified. One has a long association with Obama.

Almost immediately, it became clear that the Office was an incubator and a clearinghouse for anti-gun policy that it pushed out to blue states.

After overseeing the office, Harris’ anti-gun rhetoric has sharpened, she’s better at gaslighting the public, and it is clear what she has in store for law-abiding gun owners if she replaces Biden on a permanent basis — more unconstitutional state laws, each one of which needs to be challenged in court. This is lawfare, pure and simple.

Unconstitutional executive orders

Joe Biden has issued nearly 40 anti-gun executive orders, including one that bans homemade firearms, which the administration calls “ghost guns.” Harris will likely issue more, since she has witnessed little pushback to Biden’s orders, even those that were patently unconstitutional. She will have plenty of help at this. Harris has known Barack Obama for more than 20 years. He has been her mentor, and Obama has been the driving force behind many of the current administration’s gun control schemes.

When it comes to gun control, the Harris-Walz administration will likely devolve into nothing more than Obama’s fourth term.

Lee Williams is chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation's Investigative Journalism Project. Republished with permission.