Harris outlined a series of executive actions that she would take as president if Congress failed to act on gun control within a 100-day period.
Senator Kamala Harris said she planned to take gun control into her own hands if elected president, promising a slate of executive actions in a CNN town hall Monday night if Congress does not “get their act together” in a 100-day period to “pass reasonable gun safety laws.”
Harris said she would mandate universal background checks on anyone selling more than five guns a year, ending a loophole that allows private gun sellers to bypass background checks on 1 in 5 gun sales nationwide, bar people classified as fugitives from buying guns. She would also, her campaign said, close a loophole in federal law that allows perpetrators of domestic violence to keep their guns if they are not married to their partner.
Obama, for his part, hit a dead end when he tried to get gun control measures, like an assault weapons ban, through Congress in the wake of mass shootings like the one at Sandy Hook. Harris, Brown said, is “bypassing the stranglehold that a tiny minority of [Congress] members can exert to stop action on a measure that almost every American think is a good idea.”
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