Beto O’Rourke Flips Again, Backs Mass Confiscation of Ar-15s
If Beto O’Rourke gets elected, Texans may have to hand over their guns. O’Rourke, a Democrat challenging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the November election, endorsed the forcible confiscation of semiautomatic rifles in a…
If Beto O’Rourke gets elected, Texans may have to hand over their Guns.
O’Rourke, a Democrat challenging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the November election, endorsed the forcible confiscation of semiautomatic rifles in a Dallas town hall event on Tuesday.
“I don’t think the people who have them right now in civilian use should be able to keep them,” O’Rourke said.
O’Rourke said the policy “may not be politically popular” or “may be too honest.”
This is the second time O’Rourke has flip-flopped on gun confiscation, famously backing a proposal some identified as the most tyrannical Gun control policy ever as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
In a September 2019 Democratic debate, O’Rouke enthusiastically exclaimed that the federal government would confiscate AR-15s and AK-47s.
O’Rourke’s policy, extreme even among Democrats at the time, established him as a public enemy of American gun owners.