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Beto Expands His Anti-Gun Platform, Takes Aim At Credit Card Companies

Molly Prince
Beto Expands His Anti-Gun Platform, Takes Aim At Credit Card Companies
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) urged credit card companies on Thursday to refuse to provide service to gun sellers or manufacturers since Congress won’t ban the financing of firearms.

“Credit cards have enabled many of America’s mass shootings in the last decade. For example, the man who shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, got away with buying $11,000 in assault rifles, gas masks, grenades, and ammo,” O’Rourke’s campaign wrote in a fundraising email. “He just charged it to his credit card.”

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