Sen. Kamala Harris Kamala HarrisHarris faces pivotal moment with Supreme Court battle Nearly 40 Democratic senators call for climate change questions in debates Joe Biden has long forgotten North Carolina: Today's visit is too late MORE (D-Calif.) said that if she were elected president, she would prohibit imports of AR-15-style assault weapons.

Harris said she would use executive action to ban the weapon imports if Congress did not pass the measure legislatively during her first 100 days in office while speaking at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, according to CNN.

"Assault weapons are designed to kill a lot of people in a very short period of time," Harris said.

"I am also prepared … to take executive action to ban the import of assault weapons into our country," she added.

I sponsored the bill to renew the assault weapons ban. We need to do it. But if Congress won’t act, I'll take executive action as President to ban imports of AR-15-style assault weapons. We can't afford to wait any longer as these guns flood our country. pic.twitter.com/gfUp2XSWyP — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) May 15, 2019

According to the TV network, Harris said she does not believe banning assault weapons should be a partisan issue.

"Those guns, those assault weapons, do not discriminate and determine, 'OK, is the person pointing it at, is it a Democrat or Republican,'" she said.

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Harris has previously pledged to take executive action as president if Congress does not pass gun reforms. She has also supported a proposal to require retailers selling more than five guns per year to do background checks on buyers.

Harris is among more than 20 candidates vying for the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nomination.