O'Rourke gun plan calls for mandatory buybacks, universal sale checks

[TexasTowelie]

Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, having resumed his campaign, detailed a plan Friday to curb gun violence by imposing a national gun licensing system and registry, and a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons.

O'Rourke took time away from his campaign to aid the community in El Paso, Texas, where a shooting attack two weeks ago killed more than 20 people.

"We must connect these dots. And we must not let these moments define us," O'Rourke said in his plan Friday. "Instead, what will define America from El Paso, Texas, to Baltimore, Md., to Chicago, Ill., is the resilience and radical hope that communities have shown in response to these tragedies."

O'Rourke's plan lists a number of reforms, including the buyback program that would remove all banned assault weapons from private ownership -- a proposal that goes further than any presented so far by the Democratic field.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/08/16/ORourke-gun-plan-calls-for-mandatory-buybacks-universal-sale-checks/6681565956763/

[Stuart G]

1. Mandatory Buybacks...absolutely necessary!!!Especially automatic guns..k and r

[Hoyt]

2. If it takes buying them back, I support it. But gun-humpers invested in those rifles, and ought to

have to eat the loss themselves, along with their ammo, hi-cap mags, bumpstocks, NRA stickers, and similar gun junk.

If there is a ban on selling them, possessing them -- or even transferring by gift -- the rifles have little value.

[oldsoftie]

3. I think they'd end up having MORE value. Black market value is always high

Ban something & it immediately becomes more valuable.
Besides, not many will turn in their weapons anyway. I see the comments on social media every day. And people are not going to put up with house to house searches either.

[Hoyt]

5. Depends on how many years in jail the seller gets. It should be a lot.

Banning the things, with high fines and jail time, and some people might keep them. But they won't be walking around with them or showing them off to their gun-humping friends.

The losers won't be flouting their banned weapons except in small Klan meetings in caves:

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[Vegas Roller]

4. K&R nt

[jmowreader]

6. Is there a credible source for this?

It’s hard to take Rev Moon’s news sources seriously, and the Unification Church owns UPI

[TexasTowelie]

7. Does this meet the bill?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287241918

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