Vice President Kamala Harris wants voters to know she’s a responsible Glock owner. In an aired on Monday, CBS host Bill Whitaker asked Harris about her recent comments on owning a gun, asking her which gun she has. "I have a Glock, and I've had it for quite some time," Harris said.

"Look, Bill, my background is in law enforcement, so there you go," she added. Whitaker asked if she had ever fired it. "Yes, of course I have, at a shooting range," she said.

Glock is a brand of short-recoil-operated polymer-framed pistols made by Austrian manufacturer Glock Ges.m.b.

H. The gun brand advertises the Glock 22 as "by far the most popular police service pistol in the United States." This frankness about firearms could be a campaign strategy to try to move the needle in swing states, political and communications experts told BI — and it might help fend off potential GOP attacks.

Gun ownership is widespread in the US, too. In a of more than 5,000 US adults conducted in June 2023 by the Pew Research Center, 32% of respondents said they own a gun. Harris also that she owned a gun during a live-streamed interview with Oprah Winfrey in September.

And in 2019, Harris said that she Although she owns a gun, Harris has been a proponent of safer firearms usage and stricter gun ownership laws. She oversees the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which President Joe Biden in 2023 to ensure more stringent background checks and create new criminal penalties for unauthorized gun ownersh.