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Via the Daily Wire: 

On Friday, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) appeared on CNN. During his segment, anchor Kate Bolduan asked the representative about gun control, specifically noting Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) recent op-ed in which he suggests banning semi-automatic rifles, and prosecuting those who refuse to turn them over.

BALDUAN: Let me ask you this, [because] you lay out some of the regulations that you support and many Americans support, but we also have fellow Democrat Eric Swalwell, for example, he's from California. He put out an op-ed yesterday arguing for reinstating the assault weapons ban. But it was not just that. He went quite a bit further, and he said that what he also wants is, "we should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law, and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons." So when gun rights advocates say Democrats just want to take away your guns, are they now right?

DEUTCH: Listen, there are gun buyback programs that exist in some communities, and if people choose to turn in their guns, certainly law enforcement is working with them to do that. I think what we ought to do and what the NRA always refuses –

BALDUAN: But is Swalwell going a step too far when he says that people should be held criminally responsible if they don't turn over their weapons?

DEUTCH: Well, I think what's important is to stop the production of weapons of war that don't belong on our streets...just remember this, it was just about 90 years ago also on Valentine's Day that a massacre in Chicago led Congress to say we can't have all these machine guns on our streets. No one has questioned that decision. Now it was another massacre on Valentine's Day here in Parkland that should prompt Congress to say we can't have all these assault weapons on our streets.

No one's complained about that law. Let's treat these assault weapons the same way we treat machine guns. That ought to be something that everyone can get behind. No more manufacture. Let's get them out of our communities.

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