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Beto O’Rourke Suggests That Gun Manufacturers Will Finance His Gun Confiscation Plan

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Beto O’Rourke Suggests That Gun Manufacturers Will Finance His Gun Confiscation Plan
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) revealed on Friday that if he is elected to the office of the presidency, he will authorize a surcharge on companies that manufacture firearms in order to fund his proposed federally mandated gun confiscation plan.

“I think a mandatory buyback can be financed with a surcharge that would be paid by gun manufacturers,” O’Rourke told CBS News reporter Tim Perry. “Those who are making the AR-15s and AK-47s, and continue to sell them into our communities despite the terror that they have inspired and the lives that they have taken.”

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