For many Americans, particularly gun owners, where a politician stands on the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms is a deciding factor in whether they will vote for them or not.

For Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris, her stance on the Second Amendment is a disqualifier for many voters, as even though she claims to be a gun owner and professes support for the constitutional amendment, she also supports many egregious infringements of the fundamental right, according to Breitbart.

Those infringements include bans on certain types of commonly owned firearms, strict regulation of how guns are bought and sold, and the confiscation of legally owned firearms from gun owners who've not been convicted of any crimes, much less engaged in violence with those weapons.

Harris claims to be a gun owner, supports the Second Amendment

In an X post on Sunday, VP Harris wrote, "It is a false choice to suggest you are either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away."

"I am in favor of the Second Amendment -- and I am in favor of an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, and red flag laws," she added.

That post followed the minor controversy that erupted when Harris, according to Newsweek, told Oprah Winfrey in a recent interview that she was a proud gun owner and laughed about shooting any would-be burglar who entered her home.

The gun ownership claim is one she has made at various points throughout her political career, though she has never provided any details or proof of the claimed ownership and has simultaneously been a consistently loud voice calling for stricter gun control laws.

She wants to ban the most popular and commonly owned rifles

Whether or not VP Harris is a "rules for thee but not for me" type of gun-owning politician is beside the point, as it is instead the several gun rights-infringing policies she supports that matter the most to Second Amendment-supporting voters.

Harris has routinely demanded a ban on so-called "assault weapons," meaning AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles with certain ergonomic features like pistol grips and adjustable shoulder stocks, which differ only cosmetically from the vast majority of all other semiautomatic firearms and are some of the most popular and commonly-owned rifles in the country.

In fact, Breitbart reported in 2022 that, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, it was estimated that there were around 25 million AR-15 and AK-47-style semiautomatic rifles in current circulation, making the weapons even more popular and commonly owned than Ford F-Series trucks, the nation's best-selling and most popular vehicle for decades.

Outlaw private sales, confiscate weapons she doesn't like

In addition to bans on so-called "assault weapons" like the AR-15, VP Harris has also pushed for so-called "universal" background checks on firearms, which would essentially outlaw private sales of weapons between consenting individuals and force those transactions to occur with the documentation and oversight of a federally-licensed firearms dealer.

On top of that, she has also expressed support for so-called "red flag" laws that allow authorities to dubiously seize an individual's legally owned firearms before any crime is even committed, much less an actual criminal conviction that would result in the loss of said individual's gun rights.

Harris has further and frequently called for the broad confiscation of certain firearms she doesn't think Americans should own by way of "mandatory" gun buy-back programs, according to the National Rifle Association.

Again, whether or not Harris actually owns a handgun for personal protection doesn't really matter, as she has made clear that she doesn't want you and other gun owners to purchase and possess certain types of firearms and will gleefully infringe upon the sacred right of gun ownership that countless Americans have fought and bled and died to defend.