Kamala Harris comes out as a gun owner

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Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris said during a campaign stop in Iowa that she is one of the tens of millions of Americans who own a firearm.

“I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do — for personal safety,” the 2020 hopeful from California told reporters Thursday after a house party in Des Moines, Iowa. “I was a career prosecutor.”

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