Reuters A Republican lawmaker from Texas told Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke that his own “AR” is ready for him after O’Rourke said he would back a gun-control plan to recall assault-style rifles from Americans.
At the Democratic primary debate on Thursday night, O’Rourke said he supported a plan to confiscate weapons “designed to kill people on a battlefield.”
“Hell yes we are going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” O’Rourke said to applause from the audience in Houston.
After the debate, Briscoe Cain, who represents a district in the Texas statehouse, tweeted at O’Rourke: “My AR is ready for you Robert Francis,” a reference to the candidate’s given first name.
Cain soon deleted the tweet, but not before O’Rourke took a screenshot of it and replied to him.
“This is a death threat, Representative,” O’Rourke wrote to Cain. “Clearly, you shouldn’t own an AR-15—and neither should anyone else.”
Cain wrote back, “You’re a child Robert Francis.”
This story originally appeared at NYPost.com
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