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Texas state congressman tells Beto O’Rourke his ‘AR is ready for you’

The tweet was reportedly sent to the FBI.

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A tweet directed at 2020 hopeful Beto O’Rourke from a Texas state lawmaker was removed because it violated the companies rules on threats and also reported to the FBI by the O’Rourke campaign.

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On Thursday night, during the third 2020 Democratic debate, O’Rourke said he supported a gun buyback program for assault weapons, adding: “Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, your AK-47 … We aren’t going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.”

The line was tweeted by O’Rourke’s Twitter account, prompting a response from state Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Tx.).

“My AR is ready for you Robert Francis,” Cain tweeted, using O’Rourke’s legal name.

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Around the same time, O’Rourke tweeted a screenshot of Cain’s tweet, calling it a “death threat.”

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“This is a death threat, Representative. Clearly, you shouldn’t own an AR-15—and neither should anyone else,” O’Rourke’s account tweeted.

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Cain responded—again using O’Rourke’s legal name—calling him a “child.”

“You’re a child Robert Francis,” Cain tweeted.

https://twitter.com/BriscoeCain/status/1172364502530179072

The “AR” tweet from Cain was removed by Twitter because it violated a rule that “you may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people,” a company spokesperson told the Dallas Morning News. It was no longer visible on his profile on Friday morning.

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O’Rourke’s campaign told a CNN reporter that they were reporting the tweet to the FBI.

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