Waukesha Times

The president of a national coffee company said Vice President Kamala Harris’ statement at a West Allis, WI rally last week that she will “finally pass” a ban on guns is “typical Democratic rhetoric.”

“Typical democratic rhetoric on guns,” Jon Harvey, president of Iron Sight Coffee Brewing Co., told Waukesha Times. “If you can't control the guns in Chicago with the most restrictive gun laws, how do you think it's gonna work for the rest of the country?”

Harvey, who founded Iron Sight in 2023, is a longtime political activist in Utah and host of The Modern Conservative Podcast. 

Based in Salt Lake City, Iron Sight has customers across the U.S., and donates a portion of all proceeds to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a non-profit that provides mortgage-free homes to Gold Star families and fallen first responder families with young children.

During a rally in West Allis earlier this week, Harris said that, if elected president, she will "finally pass" a ban on guns among other gun restriction laws. 

"We, who believe that every person should have the freedom to live safe from the terror of gun violence, will finally pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban," Harris said.

In September 2023, President Biden appointed Harris to head the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. As head of that office, Harris advocated for enactment of universal background checks legislation and banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Goals for the office also included increasing requirements for gun storage and lost firearms reporting, and increased accountability for the firearms industry using liability laws. 

Harris' stop in West Allis was her first major campaign appearance since being moved up as the Democrat nominee in the upcoming presidential election after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, endorsing Harris in a post made to his X account. 

She arrived in the Milwaukee area shortly after the close of the Republican National Convention, where former President Donald Trump named Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate. In her speech at the rally, she emphasized her political focuses, including abortion, gun control, and worker unions, pitching herself against Trump and his campaign policies. 

Kamala Harris was elected as Vice President of the United States in the 2020 presidential elections, becoming the first woman to hold the office. Previously, she was Biden's running mate in the campaign. Before being elected as Vice President, Harris served as the District Attorney of San Francisco, the Attorney General of California, and as a U.S. Senator from California.