Beto: ‘No I’m Not Talking About’ Confiscation, ‘I’m Talking About a Mandatory Buyback’

EXCERPT:

CAMEROTA: "I understand that that’s your aspiration. And I think the question was and then what? And then what’s next? Because it sounds like confiscation. And I just can’t tell if you — if you’re comfortable with that you know, that that’s a buzzword that makes a lot of people on the right and gun owners nervous, and so if that’s what you’re suggesting."
O'ROURKE: "No, I’m not suggesting that. And I think that’s why people use the word confiscation, because it scares people. What I’m talking about is a mandatory buyback, where Americans who own an AR-15 or an AK-47 will sell that weapon back to the government. And there is precedent of doing this successfully in other parts of the world successfully without infringing upon our fellow Americans Second Amendment rights to own a firearm they need for self-defense in their home or to go hunting, or for collection or sport. We can take those weapons that pose a mortal risk to our fellow Americans, instruments of terror that have terrorized our fellow Americans.”