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J. D. Vance: “My grandmother had 19 loaded handguns when she died.”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Vice President JD Vance at the Nixon Library

Published | Video Starts at 04:20

And then her ultimate passing helped lead you to a crisis. Let's start there. Talk about that. Sure. So, you know, my grandmother was in many ways not a stereotypical My grandmother had 19 loaded handguns when she died. And I remember when my aunt and I and my sister were going through her things after she had passed away, we would find loaded revolvers on all around the house, in the knife drawer and in her dresser and her wardrobe. (04:20–04:24)

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Asserts that his grandmother owned 19 loaded handguns at the time of her death.

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