VP Harris phone calls for 'assault weapons ban' on guns 'intentionally created to kill' men and women

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday identified as for the reinstatement of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, arguing that selected semi-automatic firearms are "intentionally intended" to get rid of individuals and only belong on the battlefield.

For the duration of an visual appeal on CBS News’ "Face the Nation," Harris spoke about her take a look at last 7 days to Highland Park, Illinois, the place a man armed with a semi-computerized rifle opened fireplace on a Fourth of July parade, killing 7 and injuring 46.

"When you satisfy with initially responders, when you fulfill with family members of these victims, you are not able to prevent the truth of what the impression of this gun violence is on a community," the vice president explained.

Harris explained mass shootings hold taking place throughout the state "mainly because those weapons are readily available, and we have to cease allowing for these weapons to be readily available to civilians living in communities of persons who have a suitable to believe that that they are not in a war zone."

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks when assembly with point out legislative leaders in the Vice President's Ceremonial Business office in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, July 8, 2022. (Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca by way of Getty Pictures)

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"Assault weapons were being specially and deliberately built to kill a lot of human beings speedily," she mentioned. "It is a weapon of war. If you have at any time appeared at, if I may possibly be so blunt, an autopsy photograph to see what it does to the human physique. And the fact that we can not get Congress to renew –  it's not like we're pulling a little something out of our hat. We have completed it in advance of as a nation – to renew the assault weapons ban, is outrageous. 

"You can assist the Next Amendment," she additional. "I assistance the Next Modification, but we should really concur we must not have weapons of war on the streets of America."

The Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004, specially outlawed 19 styles of semi-automatic firearms, as nicely as other rifles, shotguns and handguns that possess two or far more of a sure set of functions, including pistol grips, detachable journals, and audio suppressors. The optimum ability of a journal was also set at 10 rounds.

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Nationwide Training Affiliation 2022 annual conference and agent assembly in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Tuesday, July 5, 2022.  (Tannen Maury/EPA through Getty Visuals)

A research produced for the Office of Justice in 2004 observed that its "effect on gun violence is probable to be smaller at best, and probably also small for reliable measurement."

President Biden, who was a senator when the ban was handed, has frequently named for its reinstatement in the wake of quite a few mass shootings in latest months.

President Joe Biden provides remarks on reproductive rights as (L-R) Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of Health and Human Companies Xavier Becerra hear through an party at the Roosevelt Area of the White Property on July 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Image by Alex Wong/Getty Photos)

But even though Democrats command both equally chambers of Congress, any key gun reform laws would involve 60 votes in the Senate, which means that at minimum 10 Republicans would have to sign on to legislation for it to be feasible.

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Meanwhile, a recent Quinnipiac College poll identified that 50 % of registered voters assistance a nationwide ban on semi-computerized long guns as opposed to 45% who oppose, showing the least expensive stage of guidance due to the fact February 2013 when Quinnipiac began asking that dilemma.

G3 Box News’ Paul Ideal and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.