15 Months Before Gun Seizure Vow, Beto O'Rourke Said AR-15 Owners Could Keep Guns

Democratic presidential candidate former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) speaks to the media as he visits the outside of a detention center for migrant children in Homestead, Fla., on Jun. 27, 2019. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A year before he said, “Hell yes, we’re gonna take your AR-15,” Beto O'Rourke promised gun owners that they could keep their firearms if they already had them.

Appearing on “The Chad Hasty Show” in April 2018, O'Rourke was pressed over his gun control plans.