Harris says anyone breaking into her home is 'getting shot'

The Democratic presidential nominee has discussed her gun ownership in a jokey exchange with Oprah Winfrey.

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"If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot," she said in a jokey exchange during a livestreamed event in Michigan with host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday.

After a laugh, the Democratic presidential nominee continued: "I probably shouldn't have said that, but my staff will deal with that later."

Harris, who highlighted during the recent presidential debate that she was a gun-owner, went on to reiterate that she supported a ban on assault weapons.

A firearm of that type was "literally designed to be a tool of war", she told Winfrey. "It has no place on the streets of a civil society."

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