Beto O‘Rourke Says Guns Would ’Be Taken‘ From People Who Don’t Give Them Up Under Proposed ’Buyback’

Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke looks on during a break at the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio on Oct. 15, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) said that guns “will be taken” from people who don’t follow his proposed plan to outlaw AR-15s and AK-47s.

O‘Rourke is the Democratic presidential candidate who was asked at the September debate whether he’d force Americans to give up their guns and answered, “Hell yes.”