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Social Posts Spin Harris’ Gun Control Proposal

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Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democratic candidate for president, has not called for Americans to “surrender” their guns, as social media posts wrongly assert.


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At a CNN town hall in April, California Sen. Kamala Harris said that, if elected president, she’d use executive powers to implement gun control policies — if Congress did not pass “reasonable gun safety laws” within her first 100 days in office.

The Democratic candidate outlined her proposal, too, but

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