Beto O’Rourke calls for banks and credit card companies to stop processing assault weapons sales and firearm transactions without a background check.
Hours before the third Democratic presidential debate Thursday in Houston, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke has returned to Texas with a new call looking to stir the night’s conversation on gun violence: telling banks and credit card companies to stop processing assault weapons sales and firearm transactions without a background check.
Additionally, he is calling on these financial institutions to deny services to all gun and ammunition manufacturers that produce or sell assault weapons. This call appears to be the first of its kind among the Democratic candidates. O’Rourke suspended his campaign operations then and returned to the trail nearly two weeks later as the first candidate to call for a mandatory government buyback of every assault weapon in the United States. A September ABC News/Washington Post poll shows 52 percent of Americans support such a program.
The campaign has worked to position itself as the most aggressive on the gun violence issue, from driving a conversation on a policy-front with his buy-back program to using blunt, and sometimes profane language to make his intentions clear.
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