She's already admitted to owning a Glock. Both California and Washington DC require that all handgun be registered, and DC has a ban on magazines with a greater than 10 round capacity. Most Glock pistols commonly used have a 15-round magazine.
In addition, the state of California classifies Glock pistols as "unsafe handguns" because they do not have a compliant chamber load indicator and lack a magazine disconnect mechanism. It was Kamala Harris herself who supported California's Unsafe Handgun Act.
Kamala Harris says she owns a Glock despite supporting handgun bans in SF, prompting speculation it’s unregistered
"California state law
requires gun buyers to have a Firearm Safety Certificate and DC
requires all handguns to be registered.
Glocks, furthermore, cannot legally have magazines with a capacity of more than 10 bullets in the nation’s capital, and some models of Glock come with a standard capacity that
exceeds that limit.
“DC residents have to register their firearms. And DC issues a gun-registration ID card for each firearm, with the make, model, and serial number. Post your card, Kamala,”
tweeted Mike Davis, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and a former Senate Judiciary Committee aide.
Kamala Harris says she owns a Glock despite supporting handgun bans in SF, prompting speculation it’s unregistered
Harris questioned for owning gun classified as ‘unsafe’ weapon in California
"Vice President
Kamala Harris was happy to remind voters that she owns a gun, but the more they learn about her
firearms, the more they ask why she appears to support a double standard for gun owners.
During her
60 Minutes interview Monday night, Harris followed up on previous statements that she is a gun owner with some specifics that she owns a Glock pistol. The Democratic presidential nominee said she has owned one for "quite some time" and has practiced firing it at a gun range...
..."Note that California law classifies ALL Glocks as 'unsafe handguns' because they do not have a compliant chamber load indicator, lack a magazine disconnect mechanism, and until our lawsuit caused California to repeal the requirement, of course lacked microstamping," Kostas Moros, an attorney with Michel & Associates representing the California Rifle & Pistol Association, posted on X.
"The only reason we can still buy Gen 3s is because they are grandfathered in, but they are still 'unsafe handguns,'" Moros continued. "We can't buy more modern Glocks new in gun stores (just secondhand from exempt cops, or from those who moved here with them from other states). She supported the Unsafe Handgun Act and expanded it such that microstamping began to be enforced in 2013. So why does she own an 'unsafe handgun'?"
Microstamping is a controversial technology that engraves markings into a gun's inner workings so that law enforcement authorities can match bullet cartridges to a specific gun and then find the firearm's owner. According to Moros, all Glocks lack microstamping.
Harris was attorney general of California in 2013 when the Justice Department authorized the state to institute a 2007 law requiring new models of handguns to be microstamped. In 2023, the California legislature passed a law banning the sale of any handgun that isn't "microstamping-enabled."
Another gun rights organization, the National Association for Gun Rights, similarly criticized her on the same points.
Harris questioned for owning gun classified as ‘unsafe’ weapon in California