ハリス氏、グロック製拳銃を所持 「もちろん」実射も

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米大統領選の民主党候補、カマラ・ハリス副大統領は７日放送されたＣＢＳの報道番組「６０ミニッツ」のインタビューで、グロック製の半自動拳銃を所持していると明かし、「もちろん」射撃場で撃ったこともあると語った。（写真は米民主党大統領候補のカマラ・ハリス副大統領）
　ハリス氏が先月、国民的司会者オプラ・ウィンフリー氏に対し、「銃を所持している」と述べ、「わが家に侵入すれば撃たれることになる」と話したのを受け、どのような種類の銃を持っているかをめぐり臆測が広がっていた。
　ハリス氏は、ＣＢＳのビル・ウィテカー記者に銃の種類について問われ、「グロックを持っている。ずっと以前から」と語った。
　「私は法執行機関出身だということだ」とし、実際に撃ったことがあるかとの質問に対しては、「もちろんある。射撃場で。イエス。もちろんある」と笑いながら答えた。
　グロックはオーストリアの銃器メーカー。同社製の拳銃は米国で最も売れている拳銃の一つで、警察で広く使用されているほか、映画やヒップホップ文化に登場したことでカルト的な地位を獲得している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/10/08-18:08）

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris revealed in an interview broadcast Monday that she owns a Glock semi-automatic pistol -- and said that of course she'd fired it on a shooting range.
Speculation has swirled about the US vice president's weapon of choice ever since she told television star Oprah Winfrey recently that she was a gun owner and that she would shoot anyone who broke into her house.
I have a Glock, and I've had it for quite some time, Harris said in an interview on the primetime CBS show 60 Minutes when asked what kind of firearm she packed.
My background is in law enforcement. And -- so there you go, added the former prosecutor and California attorney general.
Interviewer Bill Whitaker then asked if Harris had ever fired the Glock. Harris replied with a laugh: Of course I have. At a shooting range. Yes, of course I have.
Austrian manufacturer Glock makes one of America's best-selling handguns. Widely used by police, Glocks have also attained cult status from their appearance in films and hip-hop culture.
Until recently Harris had rarely mentioned her status as a firearms owner, in line with her party's emphasis on curtailing access to guns in a country regularly rocked by armed crime and mass shootings.
But in a tight election with Republican Donald Trump, the 59-year-old Democrat has begun to play up her gun-owning credentials.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that Harris wants to confiscate Americans' guns in violation of the US constitution's Second Amendment -- including in their only televised debate last month.
Harris fiercely rejected that charge, noting that she and her running mate, Tim Walz, are both gun owners.
I'm a gun owner, she then told Winfrey in September. If someone breaks in my house, they're getting shot, she added with a chuckle.
Her Glock revelation in was the most eye-catching in an interview that saw Harris carefully navigate tough questioning on hot-button topics like immigration and the economy.
Trump backed out of a 60 Minutes encounter last week, bucking what the program said was a half-century tradition of both US presidential candidates sitting down with the show before an election.