'Never went to war': Walz ripped for saying he wants to ban guns he 'carried in war'

Minnesota Gov Tim Walz has previously acknowledged he never saw combat while in Army National Guard

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Vice President Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, said he wants to ban guns he "carried in war" though he never saw combat during his time in the Army National Guard and left the service after being informed that his unit would be deployed to Iraq.

"I spent 25 years in the Army, and I hunt. I’ve been voting for commonsense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can research the impacts of gun violence. We can make sure those weapons of war that I carried in war are only carried in war," Walz said in a video posted by the Harris campaign on Tuesday.

Walz joined the Army National Guard in 1981, retiring in 2005 from the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery, where he rose to the rank of command sergeant major. Across his more than two decades of service, he never saw combat, according to an interview with Minnesota Public Radio in 2018. Read more, see Xs and videos here.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/never-went-war-walz-ripped-saying-he-wants-ban-guns-he-carried-war