All Abbott has to do is run this 3 second ad over and over and over......
(Game over)

I and a lot of conservative Texans hope you are correct. I am not a Texan, but IMO if TX goes, so goes the country.

Unfortunately, the House just passed an assault weapons ban bill, H.R. 1808 which specifically goes after AR-15's and has a rather lengthy list of guns that are banned. I don't believe it has passed the Senate, but if it should, then Beto can campaign on that he helped to get it passed.
With Soros in this game, I am sorry, but I cannot be optimistic but rather realistic of what his money can buy and do.