Kamala Harris calls for 'assault weapons ban' in wake of Uvalde, Buffalo mass shootings

The vice president made the gun control remarks after speaking at the funeral of an 86-year-old woman killed in the Buffalo shooting

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Vice President Kamala Harris called for a ban on "assault weapons" on Saturday

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after she spoke at the funeral of a woman killed in the Buffalo

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New York grocery store mass shooting earlier this month.

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She called the firearm a "weapon of war" that has "no place in civil society."

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"We are not sitting around waiting to figure out what the solution looks like.

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You know, we're not looking for a vaccine.

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We know what works on this," she told reporters outside of Air Force Two at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport

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referring to the series of mass shootings that have plagued the U.S. "Let's have an assault weapons ban."

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