Beto O'Rourke: “Universal background check could have prevented that…”

“That's what, that's exactly what happened in Midland and Odessa in 2018. Weeks after the El Paso shooting. Somebody bought from a private seller because they were denied a gun from a licensed firearm dealer. Universal background check could have prevented that casualty or that mass casualty event in the El Paso situation. The shooter in El Paso, who lived in Allen, Texas, north of, north of Dallas, when He ordered his AK47 and when it came in to the gun shop and …” (25:22–25:31)

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