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Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. He previously represented a district in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Sen. Chris Murphy says mass shootings decreased as a result of a 2022 law. Is that true?
By Amy Sherman
August 28, 2025

Following the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”

The US homicide rate has dropped, but Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy overstates effect of gun law
By Samantha Putterman
February 15, 2024

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act led to “a 12% reduction in urban homicides in this country.”

Do loose gun laws lead to more gun deaths? Fact-checking Sen. Chris Murphy’s claim
By Louis Jacobson
April 11, 2023

“The 5 states with the highest gun homicide rates in the nation all have loose gun laws” while “the 5 states with the lowest rates…

Chris Murphy said most counties refuse to enforce gun laws. What’s on paper isn’t always reality.
By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes
December 2, 2022

“60% of counties in this country are refusing to implement the nation's gun laws.”

Fact-checking Sen. Chris Murphy on the ages of mass shooters
By Louis Jacobson
May 25, 2022

“Most of these killers tend to be 18, 19 years old.”

Senator forgets key context about UNC’s COVID-19 testing
By Paul Specht
August 20, 2020

“At UNC 14% of students tested positive.”

Sen. Chris Murphy overstates travel from China after Trump restrictions
By Bill McCarthy
May 13, 2020

Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.”

Has the Trump administration spent only 6 percent of border money?
By Louis Jacobson
January 4, 2019

"The 2017/2018 budgets gave (President Donald) Trump billions for border upgrades. He’s spent ALMOST NONE of it. 6%."

Is Trump’s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh to the right of Scalia on assault weapons? No
By Manuela Tobias
July 11, 2018

On assault weapons, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s position is "way out of the judicial mainstream, far to the right of even late Justice Scalia."

Is Donald Trump responsible for rising health insurance premiums, as Chris Murphy said?
By Manuela Tobias
July 10, 2017

Says because of Donald Trump, "the IRS decided to stop enforcing the individual mandate that was the underpinning of the ACA. That has resulted in…

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