Kamala Harris once said police could pay surprise visits to legal gun owners' homes for safe storage checks
Fox News
As San Francisco's district attorney, Kamala Harris said authorities could "walk into" the home of legal gun owners to inspect whether they had their firearms stored in accordance with a new law requiring them to be locked up.
The remarks came during a press conference introducing legislation that Harris helped draft, which sought to impose penalties for gun owners who fail to store their firearms properly at home.
The bill, which at the time had just been introduced to the city's board of supervisors, was ultimately signed into law a few months later by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. It was bundled with other gun control provisions, including a new requirement for legal gun distributors to submit an inventory to the chief of police every six months, and a ban on possessing guns – even legally – in public housing.
"San Francisco now has the strictest anti-gun laws in the county," Newsom said when he signed the new laws.