Ocasio-Cortez Appears to Support Gun Ban, Confiscating Firearms

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) arrives to hear Michael Cohen, attorney for President Trump, testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on February 27, 2019. JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) appeared to call for the banning of all military-style semi-automatic firearms on March 21, after she praised New Zealand’s brand new gun control measures, including asking citizens to hand over their weapons, to be “eventually destroyed.”

Ocasio-Cortez suggested that gun control measures in New Zealand should be implemented in the United States.