"If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot," she said in a jokey exchange during a live-streamed event in Michigan 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, BBC reported.
Harris's opponents have increasingly pointed to Harris's attitude on guns as being indicative of her shifting policy positions ahead of the November election.
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